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Electoral Fraud and Voter Turnout [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 In this paper we experimentally investigate the consequences of electoral fraud on voter turnout. The experiment is based on a strategic binary voting model where voters decide whether to cast a costly vote in favour of their preferred candidate or to abstain.
Baghdasaryan, Vardan +2 more
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Modern 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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Stats, 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?
California 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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Correlates of Voter Turnout [PDF]
, 2021 Despite decades of research, there is no consensus as to the core correlates of national-level voter turnout. We argue that this is, in part, due to the lack of comprehensive, systematic empirical analysis. This paper conducts such an analysis.
Coma, Ferran Martínez i +3 more
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Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout [PDF]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013 Using county-level data across several decades, and various OLS and TSLS models, we find that higher local wages and employment lower turnout in elections for governor, senator, US Congress and state House of Representatives, but have no effect on presidential turnout.
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Melvin Stephens Jr.
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Voter Turnout Among Compulsory Voting Countries: Evidence from 1973 to 2018
PoliticonDespite 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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Voter turnout and fiscal policy [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2011 Though a large literature on the determinants of turnout has flourished, there is scant evidence on the causal impact of turnout on policies implemented in practice. Using data on French municipalities and instrumental variables for turnout based on temperature and influenza variations, we show that a one percent increase in turnout decreases on ...
Godefroy, Raphael, Henry, Emeric
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On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 In prominent voting models, expected pivotality drives voters’ turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. In practice, many individuals turn out for reasons unrelated to pivotality, and their votes overwhelm the forces analyzed in pivotality-based models.
Kaplow, Louis, Kominers, Scott Duke
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Examining Voter Turnout: A Look at Participatory Budgeting and Political Participation in Romania
Transylvanian Review of Administrative SciencesThe 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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