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  • The institution of compulsory electoral participation is commonly held to influence popular perceptions of political legitimacy. There are a variety of arguments suggesting both a positive and a negative relationship between these two variables, but previous research has not provided a strong test of these arguments. This paper tests the impact of compulsory electoral participation on three measures of political legitimacy using individual-level data from Module 2 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) project, together with relevant aggregate-level data. The results of this investigation are somewhat inconclusive: analyses of the impact of compulsory voting on efficacy, satisfaction with democracy and perceptions of the quality of representation find that survey respondents living in states employing this institution have significantly higher levels of satisfaction with democracy, but lower levels of efficacy (though the latter finding is weak). There is no statistically significant relationship between compulsory electoral participation and perceptions of the quality of representation. On balance, the evidence therefore suggests a positive relationship between the legal obligation to attend the polls and political legitimacy. (xsd:string)
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