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Carmen Ortega Villodres
Área de Ciencia Política y de la Administración, Departamento de Derecho Público - Universidad Pablo de Olavide, sevilla
Spain
José Manuel Trujillo Cerezo
INVESTIGADOR FPU, Departamento de Ciencia Política y de la Administración - Universidad de Granada,
Spain
Vol 12 No 1 (2013), Articles
Submitted: 27-06-2013 Accepted: 27-06-2013
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This article aims to revise the work of Ortega et al (2011) on the relationship between community size and electoral participation, from an individual perspective. Our study uses a multi-level approach, which combines individual and aggregate data in the electoral analysis. The 2011 local elections in Andalusia are analysed. Our findings show that community size has a negative effect on electoral participation of their residents. As the main underlying process of influence, small communities favour political efficacy among their inhabitants. Our results show that other individual characteristics, which relate individuals to their environments, as a length of local residence, localism and social interaction with neighbours had a positive effect on turnout, too

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