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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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
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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