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Document type :
Article dans une revue scientifique
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Title :
More on Seasonal Determinants of Turnout: Holidays and French Presidential Elections
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Journal title :
French Politics
Volume number :
5
Pages :
144
Publisher :
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date :
2007
ISSN :
1476-3419
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique
English abstract : [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 ...
Show more >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.Show less >
Show more >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.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
Administrative institution(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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