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A Century of Compulsory Voting in AustraliaIntroduction

A Century of Compulsory Voting in Australia: Introduction [This chapter provides an overview of the book and illustrates the key features that render Australia’s experience of compulsory voting distinctive. These include the longstanding nature of the system; its being embedded in the nation’s larger tradition of precocious innovation and ready experimentation when it comes to electoral institutions and practices; the fact that Australia is alone in embracing compulsory voting among the Anglophone democracies to which it typically compares itself; the strict enforcement of compulsory voting combined with a whole raft of procedures to facilitate voting; its consistent unambiguous success in achieving high rates of voter turnout; and, finally, the sustained and widespread public support that the practice has enjoyed.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Century of Compulsory Voting in AustraliaIntroduction

Part of the Elections, Voting, Technology Book Series
Editors: Bonotti, Matteo; Strangio, Paul

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
ISBN
978-981-33-4024-4
Pages
1 –13
DOI
10.1007/978-981-33-4025-1_1
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter provides an overview of the book and illustrates the key features that render Australia’s experience of compulsory voting distinctive. These include the longstanding nature of the system; its being embedded in the nation’s larger tradition of precocious innovation and ready experimentation when it comes to electoral institutions and practices; the fact that Australia is alone in embracing compulsory voting among the Anglophone democracies to which it typically compares itself; the strict enforcement of compulsory voting combined with a whole raft of procedures to facilitate voting; its consistent unambiguous success in achieving high rates of voter turnout; and, finally, the sustained and widespread public support that the practice has enjoyed.]

Published: Mar 14, 2021

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