Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0985074

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0985074

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Is Compulsory Voting Defensible? If it can be demonstrated that, under the right conditions, compulsory voting is an acceptable solution to the escalating problem of declining turnout in industrialised, voluntary-voting systems, then the Australian regime will provide the ideal starting point from which to produce guidelines for the successful adoption and management of compulsory voting. Since Australia has, arguably, the best managed and tolerated compulsory voting regime in the world, the project has potentially enormous national significance in terms of publicising, promoting and exporting our electoral expertise. The project will also position Australian scholarship at the forefront of rapidly expanding global interest in the practice.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2009

End Date: 12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $61,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified | Political Theory And Political Philosophy | Political Science | Comparative Government And Politics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding electoral systems | Civics and citizenship | Understanding political systems |

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