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    STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2017  
         
  Article:   EXPLAINING TURNOUT DECLINE IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES: THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION.

Authors:  MIRCEA COMȘA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  
DOI: 10.1515/subbs-2017-0010

Published Online: 2017-12-30

Published Print: 2017-12-30

pp. 29-60

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Turnout decline in former communist countries has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. In this paper, I re-test some of the previous hypotheses on new data and I propose a new hypothesis that considers the impact of external migration. Using multivariate regression models on a dataset of 272 presidential and parliamentary elections held in 30 post-communist countries between 1989 and 2012, I have found strong support for the “migration hypothesis”: other things being equal, an increase of migration rate by 1 percentage point reduces voter turnout by around 0.4 percentage points. Most of the previous hypotheses related to causes of turnout decline are supported too.

Keywords:
voter turnout, turnout decline, migration, post-communist countries
 
         
     
         
         
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