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Voter Turnout in the Indian States: An Empirical Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this article, the trends and determinants of voter turnout in India at the state level are explored. It reveals that there is a large variation in turnout across the Indian states.
Rekha Diwakar   +2 more
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The decrease of simultaneous local election voter turnout in the Lamongan District

open access: yesMasyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik, 2018
Voter turnout in local elections (pilkada) is a participation indicator. The local election in 2015 was different from the local elections pre-2015, as the local election in 2015 was held simultaneously.
Ali Sahab
doaj   +1 more source

Voting in Māori Governance Entities

open access: yesInternational Indigenous Policy Journal, 2020
Internationally, declining voter turnout is a topic of considerable concern in many liberal democracies. In this article, we investigate whether these similar trends can be discerned in the voter turnout for Māori governance entities.
Maria Bargh, Arama Rata
doaj   +1 more source

Exit polls and voter turnout [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Theoretical Politics, 2013
After the 2009 referendum on a proposed change to the Danish Law of Succession, it was widely claimed that the early publication of exit poll results changed the rate of turnout and eventually the outcome. We investigate this claim and contribute to the wider debate on the implications of exit polls by setting up and analyzing a formal model.
Andersen, Asger Lau, Jensen, Thomas
openaire   +5 more sources

Examining voter turnout using multiscale geographically weighted regression: The case of Slovakia

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports, 2023
Voter turnout is an essential aspect of elections and often reflects the attitude of a country’s population towards democracy and politics. Therefore, examining the distribution of voter turnout and determining the factors that influence whether or not ...
Kevický Dominik, Suchánek Jonáš
doaj   +1 more source

Schooling and Voter Turnout: Is There an American Exception? [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
European Science Foundation’s Human Values, Institutions and Behaviour (HumVIB)program “Cross-national and Multi-level Analysis of Human Values, Institutions and ...
Chevalier, Arnaud, Doyle, Orla
openaire   +5 more sources

Election Frequency and Voter Turnout

open access: yesComparative Political Studies, 2023
In recent decades, liberal democracies have considerably expanded the scope for citizen participation, calling their citizens to vote in a growing number of popular votes. This research investigates the effects of the rising election frequency on electoral participation.
Filip Kostelka   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Does median voter income matter? The effects of inequality and turnout on government spending [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article examines the relationship between economic inequality, electoral turnout and redistributive spending. I use the Current Population Survey to create direct measures of the income of the median voter to investigate its effect on spending and ...
Barnes, Lucy
core   +1 more source

Electoral Fraud and Voter Turnout [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self. [PDF]

open access: yesProc 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.
europepmc   +7 more sources

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