%0 Journal Article %1 northmoreball2016increasingly %A Northmore-Ball, Ksenia %D 2016 %J Electoral Studies %K 2016 CSES CSES_I CSES_input2016 FDZ_IUP SCOPUSindexed SSCIindexed ZA5180 article checked education english indexproved input2016 legacies political_inequality post-communist review_proved reviewed voter_turnout %P 188-200 %R 10.1016/j.electstud.2016.01.012 %T Increasingly unequal turnout in Eastern European new democracies: Communist and transitional legacies versus new institutions %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379416000123 %V 42 %X Abstract Unequal turnout, namely that educated citizens are more likely to vote, has been a long-standing pre-occupation of scholars of political participation and has been shown to exist across established democracies in varying degrees. Using pooled cross-sectional individual level data covering the period from 1990 to 2007 across 12 post-communist new democracies, this paper examines the applicability of existing explanations for unequal turnout in the Eastern European context. The paper shows that while voting procedures explain some cross-national variation in unequal turnout, turnout inequality is likewise shaped over time by processes related to the transition from communism, primarily the fading of initial excitement with democratic elections. The mechanism of learning among mature voters rather than generational replacement dominates the latter process.

@article{northmoreball2016increasingly, abstract = {Abstract Unequal turnout, namely that educated citizens are more likely to vote, has been a long-standing pre-occupation of scholars of political participation and has been shown to exist across established democracies in varying degrees. Using pooled cross-sectional individual level data covering the period from 1990 to 2007 across 12 post-communist new democracies, this paper examines the applicability of existing explanations for unequal turnout in the Eastern European context. The paper shows that while voting procedures explain some cross-national variation in unequal turnout, turnout inequality is likewise shaped over time by processes related to the transition from communism, primarily the fading of initial excitement with democratic elections. The mechanism of learning among mature voters rather than generational replacement dominates the latter process. }, added-at = {2019-03-20T18:49:19.000+0100}, author = {Northmore-Ball, Ksenia}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23cabc19df4e27db79aa8b9b0c102a65f/gesis_dump}, doi = {10.1016/j.electstud.2016.01.012}, interhash = {f8d469aa630d4f2d2b6eaca4f2f72ae5}, intrahash = {3cabc19df4e27db79aa8b9b0c102a65f}, issn = {0261-3794}, journal = {Electoral Studies }, keywords = {2016 CSES CSES_I CSES_input2016 FDZ_IUP SCOPUSindexed SSCIindexed ZA5180 article checked education english indexproved input2016 legacies political_inequality post-communist review_proved reviewed voter_turnout}, note = {First published online: January 30, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2016.01.012. (CSES)}, pages = {188-200}, tagadata-svko-dda-test = {10729}, tagadata-svkoddatest2 = {10722}, timestamp = {2019-10-01T13:01:18.000+0200}, title = {Increasingly unequal turnout in Eastern European new democracies: Communist and transitional legacies versus new institutions}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379416000123}, volume = 42, year = 2016 }