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dc.contributor.authorHUTCHESON, Derek
dc.contributor.authorARRIGHI, Jean-Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-09T10:07:22Z
dc.date.available2016-03-09T10:07:22Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationDemocratization, 2015, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 884-905
dc.identifier.issn1351-0347
dc.identifier.issn1743-890X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/39305
dc.descriptionPublished online: 25 Mar 2015
dc.description.abstractThe article compares the institutional constraints that limit the potential electoral impact of external voting in national legislative elections in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU). It shows that the discrepancy between policy aims and outcomes can be mainly attributed to a variety of institutional constraints restricting the scope of the policy (through residence and professional qualifications); limiting eligible voters’ access to the ballot (through cumbersome registration procedures and voting methods); and reducing the electoral weight attributed to their votes (through distinct modes of representation). It argues that the discrepancy is at least partly the result of a combination of electoral and normative concerns about the influence that external voters could and should have in elections. Institutional restrictions on the franchise of external citizens may be interpreted as a way to keep the “Pandora's box” of unexpected electoral consequences half-shut, by extending the suffrage to a traditionally excluded electorate while at the same time moderating the implications.
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dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofDemocratization
dc.relation.ispartofseries[EUDO]en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title'Keeping Pandora's (ballot) box half-shut' : a comparative inquiry into the institutional limits of external voting in EU member states
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13510347.2014.979161
dc.identifier.volume22
dc.identifier.startpage884
dc.identifier.endpage905
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dc.identifier.issue5


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