Unequal Political Participation Worldwide

Highly educated citizens vote at much lower rates than less educated citizens in some countries. By contrast electoral participation exhibits no such bias in other countries as diverse as Spain Denmark and South Korea. This book describes the levels of unequal participation in thirty-six countries worldwide examines possible causes of this phenomenon and discusses its consequences. Aina Gallego illustrates how electoral procedures party and media systems unionization and income inequality impact unequal participation through an original combination of cross-national survey data and survey experiments.