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- Title
Internet Use, Voter Turnout, and Party Preference across Four Regime Types in East Asia.
- Authors
Minard, Paul; Landriault, Mathieu
- Abstract
Although the advent of the Internet age has seen the growth of a substantial body of theoretical and empirical work on the effects of media revolutions on citizens' political behavior, the existing literature has not investigated how these effects might vary by regime type. Using a comprehensive dataset including over 21,000 individuals in eleven East Asian states representing four regime types, we find that the effect of Internet use on voter turnout and party preference differs significantly by regime type. Whereas Internet users are slightly less likely to vote in mature and immature democracies, they are nearly twice as likely to do so in immature anocracies. Moreover, although Internet users in full democracies are slightly more likely to vote for "major" parties than non-users, an opposite effect of a much larger magnitude is found in anocracies.
- Subjects
VOTER turnout; POLITICS of technology; POLITICAL systems; POLITICAL parties; ANOCRACY; SOCIAL media &; politics; EAST Asian politics &; government
- Publication
Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 2, p75
- ISSN
1815-7238
- Publication type
Article