implications of these two branches of structural models by exploiting a unique variability in compulsory voting laws in Swiss … effects of the introduction of compulsory voting laws on turnout. Along with the arguably exogenous treatment allocation … lend support to the ethical voting models since citizens do react to compulsory voting laws only if it is enforced with a …

Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to …. I find that compulsory voting, modeled as an increase in abstention costs, raises the share of poorly informed and … and taxes increase as well, while the effect on public goods provision is ambiguous. Compulsory voting may thus lead to …

exploits a natural experiment to assess the causal impact of compulsory voting on turnout and, more importantly, to test … whether the impact is different across skill groups. I find that compulsory voting increases voter turnout by 18 percentage … first to show, with rigorous empirical evidence, that compulsory voting laws are effective in reducing the skill …

implications of these two branches of structural models by exploiting a unique variability in compulsory voting laws in Swiss … effects of the introduction of compulsory voting laws on turnout. Along with the arguably exogenous treatment allocation … support to the ethical voting models since citizens do react to compulsory voting laws only if it is enforced with a fee. At …

and defends an ambitious solution: compulsory voting. Anticipating considerable resistance to this proposal, the article … politically intractable. Yet, compulsory voting could have many benefits. Not only could it improve turnout more effectively than … politics. Finally, compulsory voting can serve and protect such important democratic values as representativeness, legitimacy …