Compulsory voting boosts turnout but has also negative consequences, such as increasing invalid voting. Furthermore, it gives voters, including newly enfranchised youth, few opportunities to express discontent or disinterest. Shane P. Singh, Carolina Plescia and Sylvia Kritzinger argue that we could solve this by introducing a 'none-of-the-above' (NOTA) option
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Georgia
Shane is an instructor in the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research.
His research focuses on comparative politics, with an emphasis on comparative political behaviour and elections.
Shane's research has been published with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press and in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and the European Journal of Political Research, among other outlets.
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