Overview
- Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of Australia’s century-old experience of compulsory voting
- Offers a comparative analysis of compulsory voting in Australia with past and current experiences and debates on compulsory voting in Europe and North America
- Asks whether there is a relationship between compulsory voting and democratic well-being
- Questions if Australia’s experience of compulsory voting is instructive in an era when democratic politics is under pressure globally
Part of the book series: Elections, Voting, Technology (EVT)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Keywords
- Compulsory voting in Australia
- Compulsory voting in Europe
- Compulsory voting in North America
- Voter turnout
- Elections
- Ethics of voting
- Political representation
- Democracy
- Crisis of Democracy
- Democratic Theory
- National Election Participation in Australia
- Political Knowledge in Australia
- Objections to Compulsory Voting
- Representation and the Moderation Thesis
- North American perspectives on compulsory voting
- Australian Democracy
- Voting in Australia
About this book
Reviews
Political scientists, historians and legal scholars regularly examine facets of Australia’s system of compulsory voting. But, for the first time, this volume provides a comprehensive set of analyses, spanning the history, justification, administration, public support and opposition, and — critically — the political consequences of compulsoryvoting. A long overdue and rigorous contribution to our understanding of one of Australia’s most important yet most understudied and undervalued political institutions.
- Professor Simon Jackman, University of Sydney
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul Strangio is an Associate Professor of Politics at Monash University. Paul specialises in Australian political history with a particular focus on political leadership and political parties. He is an author and editor of eleven books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Century of Compulsory Voting in Australia
Book Subtitle: Genesis, Impact and Future
Editors: Matteo Bonotti, Paul Strangio
Series Title: Elections, Voting, Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4025-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4024-4Published: 14 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4027-5Published: 15 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4025-1Published: 13 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2945-7610
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 272
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Democracy, Political Philosophy, Constitutional Law, Political Theory, Political History