Electoral Participation in the French Fifth Republic

American Political Science Review - Tập 67 Số 1 - Trang 29-54 - 1973
Howard L. Rosenthal1, Subrata K. Sen2
1Carnegie Mellon University
2University-of Chicago

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Variations in second ballot abstention and blank and invalid ballot rates (over the cross-section of French election districts) are examined for all four legislative elections of the French Fifth Republic. Analysis was conducted primarily through a heuristic decision-making model and a spatial model developed from the theories of Riker, McKelvey, and Ordeshook, and Davis, Hinich, and Ordeshook.Abstentions appear to be primarily influenced by long-term factors and the competitiveness of the contest. Blank ballots appear to be primarily dependent upon short-term factors, especially nonvoting from the alienation that results when a candidate present on the first ballot is not present on the second. The alienation model and the heuristic model, though partly collinear, make independent contributions to the explanation of the blank ballot variance.

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American Political Science Review

Tập 67 Số 1

29-54

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