More on Seasonal Determinants of Turnout: ...
Type de document :
Article dans une revue scientifique
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Titre :
More on Seasonal Determinants of Turnout: Holidays and French Presidential Elections
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Titre de la revue :
French Politics
Numéro :
5
Pagination :
144
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Date de publication :
2007
ISSN :
1476-3419
Discipline(s) HAL :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique
Résumé en anglais : [en]
This article aims to test a proposition widely spread among scholars and journalists according to which holidays would have an impact on electoral turnout. To our knowledge, this possibility has not been investigated in ...
Lire la suite >This article aims to test a proposition widely spread among scholars and journalists according to which holidays would have an impact on electoral turnout. To our knowledge, this possibility has not been investigated in the French case yet. Our data, gathered for the last three presidential elections, strongly support a negative effect of holidays on turnout. Since turnout and left vote are linked, this negative influence helps to explain the defeat of the main left-wing candidate in 2002 even though it does not represent the single factor.Lire moins >
Lire la suite >This article aims to test a proposition widely spread among scholars and journalists according to which holidays would have an impact on electoral turnout. To our knowledge, this possibility has not been investigated in the French case yet. Our data, gathered for the last three presidential elections, strongly support a negative effect of holidays on turnout. Since turnout and left vote are linked, this negative influence helps to explain the defeat of the main left-wing candidate in 2002 even though it does not represent the single factor.Lire moins >
Langue :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Vulgarisation :
Non
Établissement(s) :
CNRS
IESEG School of Management
Institut Catholique Lille
Université de Lille
IESEG School of Management
Institut Catholique Lille
Université de Lille
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Date de dépôt :
2019-10-29T11:37:22Z