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Universal vote-by-mail has no impact on partisan turnout or vote share
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance In response to COVID-19, many scholars and policy makers are urging the United States to expand voting-by-mail programs to safeguard the electoral process, but there are concerns that such a policy could favor one party over the other.
Dan Thompson +3 more
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Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effects of Income on Voter Turnout in Northern Italy
American Journal of Political Science, 2021 : In many democracies, voter turnout is higher among the rich than the poor. But do changes in income lead to changes in electoral participation? We address this question with unique administrative data matching a decade of individual tax records with ...
Jerome Schafer +3 more
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Decentralization and Voter Turnout [PDF]
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2011 With this paper we study the impact of decentralization on turnout. We test the hypotheses that decentralization increases turnout in subnational elections, lowers participation in national elections, and reduces the gap between regional and national arenas.
André Blais, Eva Anduiza, Aina Gallego
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Research & Politics, 2020 Although we know a lot about why citizens vote or abstain in elections, the social inequality of low turnout in European elections has attracted little attention.
Stefan Haußner, Michael Kaeding
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Electrical engineering & Electromechanics, 2021 Introduction. The study is devoted to the development of the functionality of a railway track switch by introducing a switched-inductor electric drive. This solution justifies simplifying the mechanical part of the switches by changing the gearbox to a ...
S. G. Buriakovskyi +3 more
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Digital twin aided sustainability-based lifecycle management for railway turnout systems
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 Railway turnouts or so-called ‘switches and crossings’ are complex systems by nature of design and construction. Railway turnouts are used to change direction of trains from one to another. They require high-quality construction and maintenance, in order
S. Kaewunruen, Qi Lian
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Transnational turnout. Determinants of emigrant voting in home country elections
, 2020 A wide majority of countries acknowledge non-resident citizens' right to vote in elections in their country of origin. However, classical turnout theories do not take into account how electoral mobilisation has expanded into a transnational political ...
I. Ciornei, E. Østergaard-Nielsen
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Internet voting from abroad: exploring turnout in the 2014 French consular elections
French Politics, 2021 Internet voting has been available for French citizens living abroad since 2006, and 43.21% of them filled out their ballots online for the first election of their consular delegates in 2014.
Régis Dandoy, Tudi Kernalegenn
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Social networks and voter turnout
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 This paper develops a model of voter turnout that embeds Riker and Ordeshook’s (1968 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 62, 25–42 (doi:10.2307/1953324)) calculus of voting into the context of a social network.
Georgia Kernell, P. J. Lamberson
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One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 During the 2010 gubernatorial elections, we elicit voter beliefs about the closeness of the election before and after showing different polls, which, depending on treatment, indicate a close or not-close race. Subjects update their beliefs in response to
A. Gerber +3 more
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