Political Regimes and External Voting Rights : A Cross-National Comparison
Umpierrez de Reguero, Sebastián A. ; Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü LU
and Cartagena, Vivian
(2021)
In Frontiers in Political Science
3.
- Abstract
In this article, we analyze the nexus between political regimes and external voting rights. Using a global longitudinal dataset, we report that higher levels of inclusion and contestation bring higher probabilities that a state adopts and implements emigrant enfranchisement. Taking outliers from our quantitative assessment, we then further examine two liberal democracies, Ireland and Uruguay, and two electoral autocracies, Turkey and Venezuela. These country cases reveal three mechanisms that shed light on the strategic role of political elites in explaining the relation between political regime type and emigrant enfranchisement. First, the democracies under study show us that in certain contexts with a relatively large diaspora size... (More)
In this article, we analyze the nexus between political regimes and external voting rights. Using a global longitudinal dataset, we report that higher levels of inclusion and contestation bring higher probabilities that a state adopts and implements emigrant enfranchisement. Taking outliers from our quantitative assessment, we then further examine two liberal democracies, Ireland and Uruguay, and two electoral autocracies, Turkey and Venezuela. These country cases reveal three mechanisms that shed light on the strategic role of political elites in explaining the relation between political regime type and emigrant enfranchisement. First, the democracies under study show us that in certain contexts with a relatively large diaspora size and in which part of the political spectrum is hesitant about the political orientation of nonresident citizens, emigrant enfranchisement is neither necessarily promulgated nor implemented. Second, the autocracies illustrate that when the diaspora favors (or is perceived to favor) the incumbency, then external voting rights are extended; otherwise, third, they are withheld or limited for nonresident citizens.
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- author
- Umpierrez de Reguero, Sebastián A.
; Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü
LU
and Cartagena, Vivian
- publishing date
- 2021-03-31
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- authoritarianism, democracy, democratization, emigrant enfranchisement, external voting rights, political regime
- in
- Frontiers in Political Science
- volume
- 3
- article number
- 636734
- pages
- 15 pages
- publisher
- Frontiers Media S. A.
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85185508020
- ISSN
- 2673-3145
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpos.2021.636734
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2021 Umpierrez de Reguero, Yener-Roderburg and Cartagena.
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