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The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe

Is voting out of fashion? Does it matter if voters dont show up at the polls? If yes, is legal enforcement of voting compatible with democracy? These are just a few of the questions linked to the thorny problem of electoral abstention. This book addresses the hot question whether there is a duty to vote and if this is enforceable in the form of compulsory voting.

Divided into two parts, Anthoula Malkopoulou begins by expertly presenting the importance of compulsory voting today, situating the debate within the contemporary discussion on liberty, equality and democracy. Then, she questions the historical origins of the idea in Europe. In particular, she examines parliamentary discussions and other primary sources from France and Greece, including a few additional insights from other countries like Switzerland and Belgium. Focusing especially on the years between 1870 and 1930, the reader learns about the historical actors of the debates, their efforts to legitimate punishment of abstention through normative arguments, but also their strategic motivations and political interests. While discussions at the beginning of the century focus on introducing compulsory voting, Malkopoulou criticizes its misuse after the Second World War, exposing the contingency of relevant normative claims today and the conditionality of compulsory voting.

From ancient times until today, you learn about the ideological debates, their political context and how the problems of equal representation and democratic moderation persist through the ages.

Anthoula Malkopoulou is a Research Fellow in Political Science at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

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Anthoula Malkopoulou

The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe

Democracy's Duty?

Anthoula Malkopoulou

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Malkopoulou, Anthoula, author.

The history of compulsory voting in Europe: democracy's duty?/ Anthoula Malkopoulou.

pages cm. (Routledge studies in social and political thought; 101)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Voting, CompulsoryEuropeHistory. 2. DemocracyEurope History. I. Title.

JF1031.M35 2015
324.6'5dc23
2014032869

ISBN: 978-1-138-02197-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-77739-9 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon
by Apex CoVantage, LLC

To my parents

Contents

PART I Past and Present

PART II Parliamentary Debates since the Nineteenth Century

This book has benefitted from countless discussions with friends and colleagues in Europe and beyond. It emerged, in part, out of my PhD dissertation Democracys Duty? The History of Political Debates on Compulsory Voting, defended at the University of Jyvskyl, Finland. There are many people I would like to thank, in particular Kari Palonen, Sofia Nsstrm, Quentin Skinner, Christos Lyrintzis and Pantelis Bassakos for their extensive advice. Moreover, I am indebted to several persons for helping me in various ways to develop the ideas and to get them on paper: Jose Maria Rosales, Patricia Mindus, Maija Setl, Claudia Wiesner, Hubertus Buchstein, Dirk Jrke, Ilias Nikolakopoulos, Dimitris Christopoulos, Wim Weymans, Annelien De Dijn. Thanks also to Lisa Hill and Joop van Holsteyn for sending over additional material and to all those who have kindly shared their views with me on the topic.

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