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Social networks and voter turnout [PDF]
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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The relationship between the lifestyle health index and voter turnout during the 2020 United States presidential election in the context of regional cultures [PDF]
Public Health in PracticeObjectives: There are numerous population health challenges confronting the United States (U.S.), including the unhealthy lifestyle – chronic disease pandemics.
Ross Arena +4 more
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A cash lottery increases voter turnout [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Reform efforts to improve turnout typically focus on reducing the costs of participation or strengthening appeals to civic duty. While these efforts generate modest effects, this paper explores whether citizens might respond to extrinsic rewards to ...
Raymond J. La Raja, Brian F. Schaffner
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Asymmetric Partisan Voter Turnout Games. [PDF]
Dyn Games Appl, 2021 AbstractSince Downs proposed that the act of voting is irrational in 1957, myriad models have been proposed to explain voting and account for observed turnout patterns. We propose a model in which partisans consider both the instrumental and expressive benefits of their vote when deciding whether or not to abstain in an election, introducing an ...
Guage C, Fu F.
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Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2011 Three randomized experiments found that subtle linguistic cues have the power to increase voting and related behavior. The phrasing of survey items was varied to frame voting either as the enactment of a personal identity (e.g., “being a voter”) or as simply a behavior (e.g., “voting”).
Bryan CJ, Walton GM, Rogers T, Dweck CS.
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Can nonpartisan primaries boost turnout and lessen demographic disparities? [PDF]
PLoS ONEU.S. congressional general elections are largely uncompetitive, featuring candidates who emerge from low-turnout primaries. Voters in these primaries are unrepresentative of the broader electorate; primary voters tend to be older and wealthier.
Todd Donovan +2 more
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Social Media as Mobilizer and Demobilizer: Evidence From Taiwan
SAGE Open, 2023 This study examines the effect of social media use on voter turnout. Given that different social media platforms provide different types of content and people use different social media platforms for different purposes, this study argues that there exist
Ching-Hsing Wang, Chia-hung Tsai
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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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Trees, Forests and People, 2022 Research suggests that social cohesion partially mediates the health benefits of being exposed to the natural environment. However, past studies have relied on self-reported measures of social cohesion that have well-documented limitations. Therefore, we
Geoffrey H. Donovan +2 more
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Spatial analysis of Lithuanian youth turnout: Results of 2016-2020 parliamentary elections
Geographia Polonica, 2023 The paper analyses spatial differences in voter turnout during the 2016 and 2020 Lithuanian Parliament elections. The article delves into the problem of spatial differentiation of young voter turnout, paying special attention to the most segregated ...
Dovydas Vidzbelis, Donatas Burneika
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