Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political polarization and ...

Australians have been required by law to vote for 100 years. Compulsory voting, as it's called, has led to astoundingly high turnout and other less obvious benefits. During his second term in office, ...

Still rubbing the migraine you got from voter-suppression laws? Banging your head against the wall when voter turnout is too low? Worry no more, fam, we’ve got a magic potion for you: mandatory voting ...

It’s the day after Election Day. The votes are in, the pundits are analyzing the results and there’s been near 100-percent voter turnout. A fantasy? Maybe -— but the president thinks it might not be a ...

Introducing compulsory voting in the United States and other majoritarian democracies, with meaningful and enforceable penalties for abstention, has the potential to reduce political polarization and ...

A new study from the University of Georgia found that even unenforced, or “toothless,” compulsory voting laws can increase voter turnout. Governments around the world are searching for ways to combat ...

Labour secured a massive Commons majority at last year’s general election with the support of just one in five eligible voters. The party won nearly two-thirds of MPs (63%) with just a third of the ...

Because a coin that is thrown up, irrespective of the number of times, would always fall on either of its two sides, many of us would similarly continue to tell the members of the House of ...

In asking the question “Has Britain become ungovernable?” (Opinion, FT Weekend, January 17) Andy Haldane, a former Bank of England chief economist, rules out the possibility that democratic ...