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Puzzling evidence on voter turnout
In this empirical analysis of voting patterns in five countries on days when one or more national referenda were held, voter turnout appears to decline in the number of concurrent referenda, in contrast to standard theories’ predictions and regardless of method used to hold constant the quality of the referenda.
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Political Psychology Analysis of Voter Behavior in the Election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Makassar Sakkarang Subdistrict Community Makassar City [PDF]
This research analyzes changes in voter behavior in Sangkarrang Sub-district, Makassar City, using a political psychology perspective. The main focus of this study is to understand the fundamental factors that drove the significant increase in voter ...
Maulani Madpirah
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A Modified Anatomical All‐Inside Double‐Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Technique
Abstract Arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (ACLR) is the standard surgical treatment for ACL injuries and is most commonly performed using anatomical single‐bundle (SB) or double‐bundle (DB) techniques. With the development of the all‐inside technique, the all‐inside SB technique using socket‐based tunnels and cortical ...
Hanting Yi +6 more
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Turnout Decline in Romanian National Elections: Is it that Big?
According to official data, Romanian voter turnout decreased by half for the period 1990-2012. Gaps between official and self-reported turnout are larger than those from similar countries.
Comşa Mircea
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On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout
Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters’ turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs’s paradox: in practice, many individuals turn out for reasons unrelated to pivotality, and their votes overwhelm the forces analyzed in ...
Louis Kaplow, Scott Duke Kominers
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Vote Centers as a Strategy to Control Election Administration Costs
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
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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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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