Hybrid Voters: How the Politics in the Home and the New Country Influences External Voters

Ognibene, Marco; Paulis, Emilien

doi:10.1080/00344893.2021.1978531

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“…To answer our research questions, the Special Issue adopts an inductive and comparative perspective. The SI mixes four case studies: Ecuador (S. Umpierrez de Reguero & Dandoy, 2021), France (Kernalegenn et al, 2021), Mexico (Paarlberg, 2020b), and Romania (Gherghina & Soare, 2020a) and one comparative paper focused on member states of the EU (Ognibene & Paulis, 2021). The papers were selected for their diversity and for their expected potential to investigate whether, why and how political parties abroad perform their electoral functions in this new arena abroad.…”

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“…The last paper, by Ognibene and Paulis (2021), analyses external voting choices from emigrants from six European countries (Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland, and Romania) who settled in 28 European countries (the 27 EU member States + the United Kingdom), using longitudinal electoral data . They demonstrate that if emigrants' vote choices in home country elections mostly reflect the political context of their country of origin (emigrants tend to produce voting patterns relatively similar to those who haven't left), it is also influenced by the political life of their country of residence.…”

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Political Parties Abroad. A New Arena for Electoral Politics

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Kernalegenn²

2023

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This Special Issue contributes to the growing literature on parties abroad. Expansive citizenship has transformed and reinforced the civic and political links between emigrants and their home country. Political parties face the dilemma of engaging or not in this new arena for electoral politics and must consider how. However, until recently the literature on transnationalism and on party politics has surprisingly largely overlooked this issue. This introduction identifies the existing gaps in the literature, and stresses two main questions that remains largely unanswered, namely (1) why and how parties decide to campaign abroad, and(2) how voters abroad are receptive to these campaigns and operate their party choice in this specific context. The five articles offer a mix of case studies and comparative perspective, and quantitative and qualitative analyses. This case selection allows to explore the diversity of strategies adopted by political parties abroad in different settings, with different tools. The results illustrate the impact of local party branches and entrepreneurs' outreach and local campaigns on mobilisation, turnout, and the result of elections, but also show that emigrants' vote choice is influenced both by the context of their country of origin and of their country of residence.

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Political Parties Abroad. A New Arena for Electoral Politics

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Kernalegenn²

2023

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“…4.External voters’ participation in elections is typically low and often has a marginal electoral impact, which may make the turnout an unsuitable point of reference for gauging the level of emigrant interest in home-country politics (Lafleur 2013; Hutcheson and Arrighi 2015; Ognibene and Paulis 2023). …”

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To vote or not to vote in the homeland elections? Insights into voting abstention in Italy's constituency abroad

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Luconi,

Valbruzzi

2023

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Since its introduction in the early 2000s, legislation relating to the voting rights of Italians abroad has enabled millions of residents of voting age outside of Italy to engage in homeland elections and elect their own MPs. The inclusion of Italian citizens abroad in the Italian polity has nevertheless translated into a patchy electoral engagement. This article does not intend to provide an analysis of the voting choices in Italy's overseas constituency. Instead, it delves into external vote dynamics to provide insights into overseas Italians’ abstention in parliamentary elections and referenda. After summarising the history of the introduction of Italy's peculiar model of external voting, drawing on the results of an online survey of Italians abroad, the article examines the factors influencing turnout, with specific attention to the eligible voters’ personal characteristics. It also focuses on the attitude of Italians abroad towards possible reforms aiming at increasing electoral participation. It concludes that country of birth and Italian language skills are among the most relevant variables not only to assess what fosters or inhibits external voting, but also to gauge the opinion of voters residing outside Italy about proposals to reform the procedures regulating the exercise of suffrage from abroad.

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The chapter introduces the phenomenon of external voting, defined as exercising voting rights by citizens who are temporarily or permanently residing outside their country of origin. We delimit this form of electoral participation from similar forms of transnational politics and discuss the history and diffusion of expatriate enfranchisement, now covering a majority of countries in the world. We then go through the different features of external voting—where is it present, what sorts of elections are covered, what are the modes of organizing elections, how are ballots counted in different political systems, and what the criteria of eligibility might be. Finally, we review the extant literature on external voting, originating in comparative politics and in migration studies, and highlight some gaps that this book seeks to fill.

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Hybrid Voters: How the Politics in the Home and the New Country Influences External Voters

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Political Parties Abroad. A New Arena for Electoral Politics

Political Parties Abroad. A New Arena for Electoral Politics

To vote or not to vote in the homeland elections? Insights into voting abstention in Italy's constituency abroad

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