Dissatisfied Voters or Alienated Abstainers? Abstention and Party-Voter Incongruence

• In Event: Voter Turnout

Brief Overview

Dissatisfaction with politics explains why some voters choose not to vote, yet many still do. Using individual-level data from eight European countries and expert-survey data on parties, we test which models best explain these voters’ behavior.

Authors

• Almila Basak, Syracuse University

• Seth Jolly, Syracuse University