TY - BOOK
T1 - Institutions, incentives and electoral participation in Japan
T2 - Cross-level and cross-national perspectives
AU - Horiuchi, Yusaku
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2005 Yusaku Horiuchi. All rights reserved.
PY - 2005/2/18
Y1 - 2005/2/18
N2 - American and European political scientists have claimed that subnational elections almost always record lower voter turnout than national elections. In Japan, however, municipal elections often record considerably higher turnout than national elections, particularly in small towns and villages. Institutions, Incentives and Electoral Participation in Japan theoretically and empirically explores this puzzling 'turnout twist' phenomenon from comparative perspectives. Based on the rational-choice approach, the book hypothesizes that relative voter turnout in subnational vs. national elections is determined by the relative magnitudes of how much is at stake ('election significance') and how much votes count ('vote significance') in these elections.
AB - American and European political scientists have claimed that subnational elections almost always record lower voter turnout than national elections. In Japan, however, municipal elections often record considerably higher turnout than national elections, particularly in small towns and villages. Institutions, Incentives and Electoral Participation in Japan theoretically and empirically explores this puzzling 'turnout twist' phenomenon from comparative perspectives. Based on the rational-choice approach, the book hypothesizes that relative voter turnout in subnational vs. national elections is determined by the relative magnitudes of how much is at stake ('election significance') and how much votes count ('vote significance') in these elections.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84909128668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780203397862
DO - 10.4324/9780203397862
M3 - Book
SN - 020339786X
SN - 9780203397862
BT - Institutions, incentives and electoral participation in Japan
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
ER -