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The Global Dataset on Turnout (GD-Turnout)
Electoral Studies, 2023 In this research note, we introduce the Global Dataset on Turnout (GD-Turnout), which includes information on 3217 elections for 190 countries from 1945 to 2020. GD-Turnout is benchmarked to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) dataset on elections, the current most popular voter turnout dataset.
Ferran Martínez i Coma +1 more
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Economic Theory, 2008 The author considers a two-candidate voting game in which the set \(N\) of voters (players) is an electorate split into two disjoint groups \(N = N_1\cup N_2\), where \(N_1=\{1,\dots, n_1\}\) and \(N_2=\{n_1+1,\dots, n_1+n_2\}\) for some naturals \(n_1\) and \(n_2\) with \(n_1+n_2\geq 2\).
Tasos Kalandrakis
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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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Voter Turnout in the Indian States: An Empirical Analysis [PDF]
, 2008 In this article, the trends and determinants of voter turnout in India at the state level are explored. It reveals that there is a large variation in turnout across the Indian states.
Rekha Diwakar +2 more
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Turnout and Power Sharing [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 2014 Differences in electoral rules and/or legislative, executive or legal institutions across countries induce different mappings from election outcomes to distributions of power. We explore how these different mappings affect voters' participation in a democracy. Assuming heterogeneity in the cost of voting, the effect of such institutional differences on
H. Herrera, MORELLI, MASSIMO, T. Palfrey
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New Insights from Multibody Dynamic Analyses of a Turnout System under Impact Loads
Applied Sciences, 2019 A railway turnout is an essential infrastructure for managing railway traffic flexibility. In contrast, it imposes restrictions on train operations such as lower operational speeds through the turnout due to the complex movements of trains over the ...
Mehmet Hamarat +3 more
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Turnout Across Democracies [PDF]
American Journal of Political Science, 2015 World democracies widely differ in legislative, executive, and legal institutions. Different institutional environments induce different mappings from electoral outcomes to the distribution of power. We explore how these mappings affect voters' participation in an election. We show that the effect of such institutional differences on turnout depends on
Herrera, Helios +2 more
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Does median voter income matter? The effects of inequality and turnout on government spending [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the relationship between economic inequality, electoral turnout and redistributive spending. I use the Current Population Survey to create direct measures of the income of the median voter to investigate its effect on spending and ...
Barnes, Lucy
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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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Study on Performance Optimization and Feasibility of No.9 Turnout with 1520 mm Gauge in China
Applied SciencesTo address the issues of poor geometric dimension retention, short component lifespan, and heavy maintenance workload of the 1520 mm gauge 50 kg/m rail No.9 turnout, a new design was proposed for the 1520 mm gauge 60 kg/m rail No.9 turnout.
Zhiheng Li +6 more
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