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Making voting pay
Making voting pay
Those who regard low turnout as a particular problem for democracy are sometimes led to endorse compulsory voting as a solution. However, even if there is a moral duty to vote, such legal coercion seems illiberal. This article, by appeal to the analogous case of blood donations, suggests that we should consider instead paying people incentives to vote. This would achieve the aim of increasing turnout, particularly among underrepresented groups, without threatening individual liberty in the way that compulsion seems to.
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Saunders, Ben
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Saunders, Ben
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Saunders, Ben (2009) Making voting pay. Politics, 29 (2), 130-136. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9256.2009.01348.x).

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Abstract

Those who regard low turnout as a particular problem for democracy are sometimes led to endorse compulsory voting as a solution. However, even if there is a moral duty to vote, such legal coercion seems illiberal. This article, by appeal to the analogous case of blood donations, suggests that we should consider instead paying people incentives to vote. This would achieve the aim of increasing turnout, particularly among underrepresented groups, without threatening individual liberty in the way that compulsion seems to.

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Published date: 24 April 2009
Organisations: Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 370362
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/370362
DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1467-9256.2009.01348.x
PURE UUID: 1e984cee-8127-4e25-a0fb-7c7b66c87be4
ORCID for Ben Saunders: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-6397

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Date deposited: 22 Oct 2014 12:01
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:50

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