Politics researcher at ANU (Australian politics, comparative institutions, quantitative methods).
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Always interesting to read studies on compulsory voting in Belgium, which everyone seems to hate and it contrasts with compulsion in Australia where you can find almost no one who seriously thinks we should drop it. Arguments for equitable voice and democratic legitimacy are commonly cited.
So back to the case study of Belgium, generalising up to Compulsory Voting, ymmv.
A question I have is ‘why does everyone hate compulsory voting in Belgium so much, but not in Australia?’
I personally feel that from this perspective (earlier) studies of compulsory voting in Belgium take issue with vote quality and voter information. That’s not an argument against compulsion. At best you remove a noisy and sometimes ‘off target’ signal, at worst you entrench inequitable participation.
As a settler society the one of the most pressing concerns is the continued low turnout among Indigenous Australians. Of course everyone understands why some people wouldn’t want to vote: the young, the marginalised, the disaffected. But the assumption is that a non-vote is self defeating.
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Hello. Are you (🫵) an High Court of Australia watcher, and also an R user?
If so, please check out ✨hcdb✨ !!!
It's an R Package, with tonnes of High Court data in it.
Check it out! (tell me what's wrong)
github.com/palesl/hcdb
Pat Leslie
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Defence secretary John Healey has just resigned over the govt's Defence Investment Plan, writing that it "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time". We're getting our @instituteforgovernment.org.uk resignation chart fired back up..
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🚨New publication (with Shane Singh) in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
Proponents of compulsory voting often claim that obligatory turnout will increase citizens' political involvement, equalising levels of democratic attitudes and political engagement in the electorate. But does it? 👇
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“The truth is that ministers have not the faintest clue what to do”.
@gsoh31.bsky.social writes on the quiet collapse of Britain’s universities and why so few people seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
