# Flipping the Gender Gap: Compulsory Voting and Inequality in Turnout
**Date de l'événement :** 28/03/2023
* Publié le 28/03/2023

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## Description
Compulsory voting has long been hailed as an equalizer: by requiring that eligible citizens show up at the polls, compulsory regimes have higher turnout overall and are linked to better representation of all social groups among their electorates. Dawn Teele, with coauthors Anna Callis (UC Berkeley) and Guadalupe Tuñón (Princeton University) studied the gendered impacts of compulsory voting in Chile, which moved from voluntary to mandatory registration under a compulsory regime in 1962. If compulsory rules jumpstart women's political participation, strengthening compulsory rules should enhance equality in turnout across the sexes. Using comprehensive municipal-level data of electoral returns, in which men's and women's turnout was tallied separately, and newly unearthed records of Chile's historical electoral registers, they show that mandating registration dramatically changed women's enrollment, and, remarkably, pushed women's turnout above men's. This finding challenges our understanding of the historical gender gap, showing that electoral institutions with strong participatory mandates can help women flip the gender gap in their favor.  
  
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## Intervenant(s)
Dawn Teele

## Intervenant(s) secondaires
Emilien Houard-Vial, Cyril Benoit

### Date de publication de l'épisode
28/03/2023

### Type(s) de ressource
`#Audio` 

### Discipline(s)
`#Science politique` 

### Thématique(s)
`#Genre / sexualité` `#Démocratie / institutions` 

### Aire(s) géographique(s)
`#Amérique du Sud` 

### Langue(s)
`#Anglais` 

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`#Recherche` 

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