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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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, Raphaël, Henry, Emeric
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Schooling and Voter Turnout: Is There an American Exception? [PDF]
, 2012 One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a greater propensity to vote. The nature of this relationship is much debated, with US studies generally finding evidence of a causal relationship, while European studies generally reporting no causal effect.
Chevalier, Arnaud, Doyle, Orla
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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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Turnout and Territorial Reform: Data from Sub municipal governments in Portugal
Data 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]
Religion & 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?
California 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 ...
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