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Application of artificial neural networks in predicting voter turnout based on the analysis of demographic data

open access: yesPolish Cartographical Review, 2019
The author presents the results of research on the use of artificial neural networks in predicting voter turnout. He describes the principles of operation of artificial neural networks, as well as detailed results of two machine learning methods used to ...
Michalak Piotr
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Electoral Arrangements and Turnout Variance at the Sub-National Level: Comparative Insights from Three Constituencies in Ghana

open access: yesModern Africa, 2020
Using micro-level data from three constituencies in Ghana, which are cases of high, average and low turnout respectively, I assess whether voters’ perceptions of the cost of voting (resource and time) can explain such variation in voter turnout.
Fortune Agbele
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Closed Form Bayesian Inferences for Binary Logistic Regression with Applications to American Voter Turnout

open access: yesStats, 2022
Understanding the factors that influence voter turnout is a fundamentally important question in public policy and political science research. Bayesian logistic regression models are useful for incorporating individual level heterogeneity to answer these ...
Kevin Dayaratna   +2 more
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How Can We Increase Turnout among Low Propensity Voters?

open access: yesCalifornia Journal of Politics and Policy, 2020
. How can we increase voter turnout among low-propensity voters? Researchers and practitioners have found interventions that increase voter turnout, but these interventions tend to increase turnout among individuals already likely to vote, and therefore ...
Seth Hill   +4 more
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Voter Turnout Among Compulsory Voting Countries: Evidence from 1973 to 2018

open access: yesPoliticon
Despite significant evidence that compulsory voting affects voter turnout, several compulsory voting countries had abandoned this law. It raises the query of whether compulsory voting affects voter turnout at the population level of compulsory voting ...
Ikhsan Darmawan
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Examining Voter Turnout: A Look at Participatory Budgeting and Political Participation in Romania

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
The gap between elected authorities and citizens is widening in many democracies due to declining political engagement. This article examines wheth­er participatory budgeting (PB) is linked to voter turnout in Romania.
Alexandru Andrei Ivan   +2 more
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Turnout and Territorial Reform: Data from Sub municipal governments in Portugal

open access: yesData in Brief, 2020
This database is related to the voter turnout in five election cycles (2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017). The data was used in the original in the article “The effects of amalgamations on voter turnout: Evidence from sub-municipal governments in Portugal”
Miguel Rodrigues, António Tavares
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Religiosity and Voter Turnout in Iran (A Case Study of the Presidential Elections during 2001-2017) [PDF]

open access: yesReligion & Communication, 2020
According to theoretical and empirical research, religion is one of the determinants of electoral behavior. In Iran, religion has always been considered as an influential institution in the field of social life.
abolghasem heidarabadi   +1 more
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Will Concurrent Elections Reshape the Electorate?

open access: yesCalifornia Journal of Politics and Policy, 2020
In 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Voter Participation Rights Act (SB 415) into law.  As its title suggests, the bill aimed to increase turnout in local elections by forcing all California jurisdictions to hold elections concurrently ...
Jonathan Collins   +2 more
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The Full Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Political Participation

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
This article examines the impact of both the Medicaid expansion and the private insurance-related components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on voter turnout and registration.
Charles Courtemanche   +2 more
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