The Social Origins of Electoral Participation in Emerging Democracies

by Danielle F. Jung and James D. Long

Given the enormous challenges they face, why do so many citizens in developing countries routinely turn out to vote? This Element explores a new explanation grounded in the social origins of electoral participation in emerging democracies, where mobilization requires local collective action. This Element argues that, beyond incentives to express ethnic identity and vote-buying, perceptions of social sanctioning from community-based formal and informal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009114263
• ISBN13: 9781009114264
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"