None of the Above
Around the world each year, millions of citizens turn out to vote but leave their ballots empty or spoil them. Increasingly, campaigns have emerged that promote “invalid” votes like these. Why do citizens choose to cast blank and spoiled votes? And how do campaigns mobilizing the invalid vote influe...
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| description | Around the world each year, millions of citizens turn out to vote but leave their ballots empty or spoil them. Increasingly, campaigns have emerged that promote “invalid” votes like these. Why do citizens choose to cast blank and spoiled votes? And how do campaigns mobilizing the invalid vote influence this decision? None of the Above answers these questions using evidence from presidential and gubernatorial elections in eighteen Latin American democracies. Author Mollie J. Cohen draws on a broad range of methods and sources, incorporating data from electoral management bodies, nationally representative surveys, survey experiments, focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and news sources.
Contrary to received wisdom, this book shows that most citizens cast blank or spoiled votes in presidential elections on purpose. By participating in invalid vote campaigns, citizens can voice their concerns about low-quality candidates while also expressing a preference for high-quality democracy. Campaigns promoting blank and spoiled votes come about more often, and succeed at higher rates, when incumbent politicians undermine the quality of elections. Surprisingly, invalid vote campaigns can shore up the quality of democracy in the short term. None of the Above shows that swings in blank and spoiled vote rates can serve as a warning about the trajectory of a country’s democracy. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1339672025-07-17T10:00:35Z None of the Above Cohen, Mollie Invalid vote, blank vote, spoiled vote, null vote, protest vote, political protest, invalid vote campaign, null vote campaign, blank vote campaign, against-all campaign, none of the above, NOTA, Latin America, Peru, democracy, democratic backsliding, political behavior, elections, voting, voting behavior, WCED, presidential elections, Arequipa, Mexico, election intimidation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHF Elections and referenda / suffrage thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHF Elections and referenda / suffrage Around the world each year, millions of citizens turn out to vote but leave their ballots empty or spoil them. Increasingly, campaigns have emerged that promote “invalid” votes like these. Why do citizens choose to cast blank and spoiled votes? And how do campaigns mobilizing the invalid vote influence this decision? None of the Above answers these questions using evidence from presidential and gubernatorial elections in eighteen Latin American democracies. Author Mollie J. Cohen draws on a broad range of methods and sources, incorporating data from electoral management bodies, nationally representative surveys, survey experiments, focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and news sources. Contrary to received wisdom, this book shows that most citizens cast blank or spoiled votes in presidential elections on purpose. By participating in invalid vote campaigns, citizens can voice their concerns about low-quality candidates while also expressing a preference for high-quality democracy. Campaigns promoting blank and spoiled votes come about more often, and succeed at higher rates, when incumbent politicians undermine the quality of elections. Surprisingly, invalid vote campaigns can shore up the quality of democracy in the short term. None of the Above shows that swings in blank and spoiled vote rates can serve as a warning about the trajectory of a country’s democracy. 2024-02-06T04:09:50Z 2024-02-06T04:09:50Z 2024-02-05T13:26:46Z 2024 book OCN: 1398507112 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87516 9780472076628 9780472056620 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133967 eng Emerging Democracies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87516/1/9780472904280.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87516/1/9780472904280.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87516/1/9780472904280.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87516/1/9780472904280.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87516/1/9780472904280.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12738341 10.3998/mpub.12738341 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472076628 9780472056620 269 open access |
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