Voter turnout has puzzled political scientists ever since Anthony Downs postulated the
paradox of voting. Despite decades of research aiming to understand what drives citizens to …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the operationalization of transaction cost
economics. Vertical integration, an understanding of which serves as a paradigm for hel** …

Bundestagswahlen, Landtagswahlen, Kommunalwahlen, Europawahlen–seit Jahren sinkt
die Wahlbeteiligung in Deutschland. Doch was steht hinter diesem Trend und was bedeutet …

Conventional wisdom suggests that citizens in many countries have become disengaged
from the traditional channels of political participation. Commentators highlight warning signs …

From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in? electoral
engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability …

What makes people decide to vote? In addressing this simple question, Andre Blais
examines the factors that increase or decrease turnout at the aggregate, cross-national level …

What effect, if any, does the extent of economic inequality in a country have upon the
political engagement of its citizens? This study examines this question using data from …

What is the political legacy of violent conflict? I present evidence for a link from past violence
to increased political engagement among excombatants. The evidence comes from northern …

Previous research claims that the number of parties affects the representation of social
cleavages in voting behavior, election turnout, patterns of political conflict, and other party …

The amount of scholarly attention directed at resolving the question why people turn out to
cast a vote is vast. In a research field dominated by empirical studies–such as the one on …