What is it about?
This paper examines the factors that influence people to vote during the 2015 Nigerian presidential election. Based on variables drawn from political participation models it attempts to investigate the variables that influenced voter turnout the most. It finds that political trust and home ownership influenced voter turnout more than other factors. However, vote buying can shape how these factors influence people's decision to vote.
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Why is it important?
The paper finds home ownership to be significant which most studies do not find and it finds that socio-economic factors do not have a significant effect on turnout.
Perspectives
The importance of this paper is its departure from previous studies in Nigeria that uses social ills such as corruption to explain political participation. It uses political participation models which have been developed by Western scholars to see how the models manifest in Nigerian elections. The political efficacy model explains electoral participation more than other models.
Dr Cletus Famous Nwankwo
University of Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: Voting in Nigeria: Determinants of Turnout in the 2015 Presidential Election, Statistics Politics and Policy, March 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/spp-2017-0010.
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