Voter turnout at New Zealand local elections keeps falling, but paying people to vote could backfire
- Written by Julia Talbot-Jones, Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington
Rather than encouraging people to become better citizens, rewards and fines can actually reduce peoples’ natural tendencies to do the right thing by others.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-NDLast week, voter enrolment for the 2019 local government elections closed in New Zealand and concerns about low voter turnout resurfaced. During a panel...




