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Ability or motivation? Voter registration and turnout in Burkina Faso

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  • Ozdemir, Ugur
  • Ozkes, Ali

    (SKEMA Business School)

  • Sanver, Remzi

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2015 elections in Burkina Faso marked a regime change driven by the public uprisings of the year before. The elections were widely taken transparently and freely run, in contrast to past experiences. However, only around two-thirds of the registered voters, who constitute around two-thirds of the voting-age population, cast their vote in the elections. Using data from an original survey experiment, we investigate the determinants of participation in these elections, focusing on the process --- looking at both the registration and voting stages. Using a two-stage sample selection model, we find that socio-demographic and economic indicators are important only in the registration stage, whereas ethnicity becomes the prominent factor in the turnout decisions.

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  • Ozdemir, Ugur & Ozkes, Ali & Sanver, Remzi, 2023. "Ability or motivation? Voter registration and turnout in Burkina Faso," OSF Preprints x5wbj, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:x5wbj
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/x5wbj
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