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Absolutely Relative: How Education Shapes Voter Turnout in the United States. [PDF]
Soc Indic Res, 2023 Kim Y.
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Voter Turnout and City Performance [PDF]
, 2014 We study the impact of exogenous variation in Italian municipal elections'voter turnout rates on city performance scores and elected mayors' indicators of valence. First, we build a simple model of voluntary and costly expressive voting, where the relative weight of ideology and valence issues over voting costs determines how people vote, and if they ...
LO PRETE, Anna, REVELLI, Federico
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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Vote Centers as a Strategy to Control Election Administration Costs
SAGE Open, 2014 The rising costs of election administration in an era of fiscal stress have motivated some local officials to test the feasibility of ideas for reducing election costs while enhancing voter convenience and perhaps even increasing voter turnout.
David H. Folz
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Trying to Turn up the Turnout: Youth Wings and the Youth Vote in the 2015 General Election
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015 The political participation of 18 to 24-year-olds in British general elections is substantially lower than for other age groups. As a result, young people are frequently labelled in the media as being disaffected with traditional politics.
Sarah Pickard
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Americans discount the effect of friction on voter turnout. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Mazar A, Tomaino G, Carmon Z, Wood W.
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Length of Compulsory Education and Voter Turnout - Evidence from a Staged Reform [PDF]
In this study, a long-term impact of additional schooling at the lower end of the educational distribution is measured on voter turnout. Schooling is instrumented with a staged Norwegian school reform, which increased minimum attainment by two years ...
Panu Pelkonen
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Evaluating a Voter Outreach Initiative [PDF]
, 2009 · This article describes an initiative designed to increase voting rates among low-income and ethnic groups in southern and central California communities.
Dominguez Arms, Amy, Amy Dominguez Arms
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Cooperative learning is a widely adopted teaching method to improve academic achievement. This review synthesises existing research on the use of cooperative learning within a school setting for pupils aged 11–16 years. Such a review has not been undertaken to date and will present an evidence base for educators considering implementation ...
Patricia Hampson +2 more
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A cash lottery increases voter turnout. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 La Raja RJ, Schaffner BF.
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