Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political polarization and ...

Labour secured a massive Commons majority at last year’s general election with the support of just one in five eligible voters. The party won nearly two-thirds of MPs (63%) with just a third of the ...

On May 3, two of the 20-or-so countries with compulsory voting will hold general elections: Singapore and Australia. Naturally, there’s quite a bit of chatter at the moment about whether compelling ...

A new study from the University of Georgia found that even unenforced, or "toothless," compulsory voting laws can increase voter turnout. The research is published in the journal Electoral Studies.

Leading think tanks on the Left want Britain to introduce compulsory voting - and the latest proposals would see non-voters ...

Casting a vote in national elections should be made mandatory for Brits with £10 fines dished out for those who abstain, the ...

Because a coin that is thrown up, irrespective of the number of times, would always fall on either of its two sides, many of us would similarly continue to tell the members of the House of ...

As midterm elections approach, the United States once again faces a familiar problem: too many citizens staying home on election day. If democracy is meant to reflect the will of the people, it may be ...

A new study from the University of Georgia found that even unenforced, or “toothless,” compulsory voting laws can increase voter turnout. Governments around the world are searching for ways to combat ...