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The Blank and the Null: An examination of non-conventional voting choices

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  • Rodrigo Martins

    (CeBER and Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra)

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This paper analyses the determinants of null and blank voting at the 2011 Portuguese legislative elections. An extensive datasets at the parish level and a fractional regression model estimator are used to estimate both voting alternatives. The results found point to some common explanatory patterns as well as to important differences between the two choices. Evidence also indicates that the performance of the local economy, especially unemployment, is important but only for the explanation of blank variations and in more urban areas, where more sophisticated voters reside. Furthermore, results point to the presence of a relevant degree of persistence in both choices and indicate that past electoral choices influence both voting choices in a way that seems to suggest the existence of protest motives.

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  • Rodrigo Martins, 2017. "The Blank and the Null: An examination of non-conventional voting choices," CeBER Working Papers 2017-06, Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), University of Coimbra.
    • Handle: RePEc:gmf:papers:2017-06
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    1. Guillermina Marto & Leandro Nallar, 2019. "“Que se vayan todos”: Null and Blank Votes in Argentine Provinces (1983-2007)," Asociación Argentina de Economía Política: Working Papers 4172, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política.

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    Keywords

    Invalid voting; blank ballots; null ballots; Portugal; elections.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations

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