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New Labour and Constitutional Reform: Why not Introduce Compulsory Voting in all Elections? (2000)

In: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest

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  • G C Harcourt

    (University of Cambridge
    Jesus College
    University of Adelaide
    University of New South Wales)

Abstract

New Labour, though keen to reform the United Kingdom constitution (or lack of it), has never considered one obvious, simple constitutional change which is democratically desirable and helpful to New Labour’s cause – the introduction of compulsory voting in all elections.† When I first came to the United Kingdom in 1955 as a research student in economics at King’s College, Cambridge, I was amazed to learn that voting was voluntary, not compulsory as it was in my native Australia. (That the polling day was on Thursday, a working week day, at least for part of it, not on Saturday, was also a surprise.)

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  • G C Harcourt, 2012. "New Labour and Constitutional Reform: Why not Introduce Compulsory Voting in all Elections? (2000)," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest, chapter 13, pages 211-214, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-34865-3_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230348653_14
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