Turnout and the Vote for Left-of-Centre Parties: A Cross-National Analysis
- 27 January 1995
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 25 (1) , 137-143
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400007109
Abstract
Political folk wisdom has long suggested that the electoral fortunes of left-of-centre political parties are affected by the rate of turnout. As is so often the case, the conventional wisdom has yet to be subjected to wide empirical scrutiny. In this Note, we attempt such an examination in the context of national elections in industrial democracies.Keywords
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