“I Would Prefer Not To”: Establishing the Missing Link between Invalid Voting and Public Protest in Latin America
Alberto Lioy
Abstract:While invalid voting is often treated as protest behavior in an electoral context, its association with actual political protests has not yet been empirically demonstrated. The relative scarcity of research on the topic is likely due to the hybrid nature of invalid voting as a both formal and informal political gesture. The novel availability of event-based data for public protests in Latin America allows for testing whether their occurrence is connected with changes in spoiled and blank ballots. Using an appr… Show more
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