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What characteristics affect early voting?: The case of Sweden
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6284-2591
2021 (English)In: European Political Science, ISSN 1680-4333, E-ISSN 1682-0983, Vol. 20, no 2, p. 281-296Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this study, I examine what characteristics affect early voting in Sweden, and a large-N study of all of Sweden’s 290 municipalities for the four most recent elections is conducted. The results show that the level of early voting is higher in municipalities where the average income is higher; where the level of older people is higher; where the level of the electorate born abroad is higher; in rural municipalities; and in municipalities where the number of early voting sites per one thousand eligible voters is higher. If the goal of the municipalities is to increase early voting, any policy recommendation that is based on the results of this study should ensure that there are numerous early voting sites in the municipalities and if there are not, the municipalities should consider increasing the number of early voting sites they provide. 

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2021. Vol. 20, no 2, p. 281-296
Keywords [en]
Elections, Electoral behaviour, Voting behaviour
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Social Sciences Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-38349DOI: 10.1057/s41304-019-00239-9ISI: 000651472800006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85078012202OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-38349DiVA, id: diva2:1390971
Available from: 2020-02-03 Created: 2020-02-03 Last updated: 2021-06-03Bibliographically approved

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