Emigrants’ missing votes

Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102398

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“…Parties and incumbents estimate potential voter support, evident across sub-Saharan African laws on paper and in practice (Wellman, 2021). Votes from nationals abroad could swing elections (Gamlen, 2015) and when diasporas are large, the absence of emigrants' votes can also change domestic results, such as in the Polish elections (Giesing & Schikora, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

Reject, Reject, Reject...Passed! Explaining a Latecomer of Emigrant Enfranchisement

Finn,

Ramaciotti

2024

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Despite the extensive spread of external voting across the world, exceptions remain as some countries have not passed such regulations (e.g., Uruguay) or have passed them but lag implementation (e.g., Nicaragua). Others still took a long time to join the trend, possibly presenting a pushback to the commonly accepted notion of norm diffusion to explain migrant enfranchisement. We examine a latecomer by asking why Chile took so long to enfranchise emigrants. Classified as a liberal democracy with a century of legal history of foreign-resident voting, it repeatedly rejected proposed bills on external voting since 1971. Chile enacted external voting only in 2014, regulated it in 2016, and applied it in 2017. Through legal historical content analysis, we identify which political actors proposed the bills, when, and why each failed. Left and right-leaning actors gave normative, legal, and procedural reasons that resulted in rejection and stagnation at various institutional stages. This latecomer’s constitutional tradition, strongly focused on territory and territorial links, potentially sheds light on dozens of other country cases of late adoption of the external franchise.

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Section: Definitions Concepts and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%