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Latino Electoral Participation: Variations on Demographics and Ethnicity

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016
Using the 2012 Latino Immigrant National Election Study, the 2012 American National Election Study, and the 2012 Current Population Survey, we document the demographic factors that influenced Latino (native-born and immigrant) voter turnout and ...
Jan Leighley, Jonathan Nagler
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Ethnic undercurrent and macro-level determinants of voter participation in Ghana’s 2012 election: Implications for the 2020 national elections

Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2020
In this paper we analyze the ethnic undercurrent and macro-level determinants influencing voter participation in Ghana based on aggregate district-level data.
Seidu Mahama Alidu, Gbensuglo Alidu Bukari   +1 more
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Income Inequality in U.S. Voting: A Visualization

Socius, 2023
Although it is clear that the 2020 election broke turnout records, we do not know how levels of voting changed across income groups. Journalistic accounts emphasized increases in turnout across demographic groups but relied on self-reported voter data ...
Daniel Laurison, Ankit Rastogi
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Higher Turnout, Greater Inequality? A Precinct-Level Analysis of Income Inequality in U.S. Presidential Voting, 2016 to 2020

Socius
The relationship between income and voter turnout is crucial to understanding U.S. democracy. Previous research has revealed that richer people tend to vote at higher rates than lower income people. But this research relied on survey data and was subject
Ankit Rastogi, Daniel Laurison
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The Determinants of Voter Turnout in Croatian Local Government Elections

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs
This study examines the factors influencing voter turnout in the 556 Croatian local governments over 2014-2021. The previous electoral turnout has a negative influence on the following elections turnout, which is consistent with the declining trend in ...
Francisco Bastida, Mihaela Bronić, Marija Opačak Eror   +2 more
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On public opinion polls and voters' turnout [PDF]

Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2006
AbstractThis paper studies the effects that the revelation of information on the electorate's preferences has on voters' turnout. The experimental data show that closeness in the division of preferences induces a significant increase in turnout. Moreover, for closely divided electorates (and only for these electorates), the provision of information ...
Esteban F. Klor, Eyal Winter
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Travel Cost on Election Day and Voter-Turnout in Chile: Exploring University Students’ Willingness to Cast a Hypothetical Online Vote

SAGE Open
An i-voting system may promote electoral participation by reducing travel cost and time to polling places, especially among youth who are more accustomed to technological changes.
Andrés A. Acuña-Duarte, César A. Salazar   +1 more
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Why Did Voter Turnout in the Czech General Elections Change between 1996 and 2010?

Sociologický Časopis, 2011
The aim of this study is to explain why turnout in Czech general elections exhibited considerable variation between 1996 and 2010. Using valence theory this article explores the differential turnout in terms of the expected benefits of voting for a party
Lukáš Linek
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Effect of Remote Electronic Voting on Voter Turnout in Russia in 2021–2023

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: политические, социологические и экономические науки
Remote electronic voting, also known as i-voting, transforms elections in Russia and worldwide, opening up new opportunities for the state and society to move from agent-object to subject-to-subject relations.
Vladislav Fedorov
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Why Does the Number of Voters and Invalid Ballots Decrease in the Second Rounds of Czech Senate Elections?

Sociologický Časopis, 2015
The second rounds of elections to the Czech Senate consistently suffer from the lowest voter turnout among all types of elections in the Czech Republic.
Karel Kouba
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