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  • In recent decades, liberal democracies have considerably expanded the scope for citizen participation. Because of processes such as decentralisation, regional integration (e.g., European Union), frequent use of referenda and other, more idiosyncratic, institutional change, citizens are required to participate in an increasingly large number of votes. This research investigates the effect of these institutional reforms and practices on electoral participation. Building on the existing literature, we hypothesize that the unprecedented proliferation of electoral contests exerts negative effects on voting rates even in the most important elections and thus contributes to the global decline in voter turnout. We test our hypotheses using three types of analyses. First, we conduct a macro-level analysis of an original and freshly collected dataset covering an exhaustive list of national, subnational, and supranational elections and referendums held in 22 democracies since 1945. Second, we use a quasi-experimental data from the United Kingdom to better explore the causal negative effect of second-order elections on voter turnout in first-order elections. Third, we conduct a multi-level analysis of the survey data from four waves of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Our research design pays particular attention to the question of causal inference. The findings have implications for a better understanding of the current participation trends, the on-going transformation of democratic citizenship, and the consequences of democratic institutional engineering. (xsd:string)
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  • Votes and Participation: The Effect of Election Frequency on Voter Turnout (xsd:string)
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