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2012
This book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others.
Regina Branton, David Goodman
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This book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others.
Regina Branton, David Goodman
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Electoral Rules and Voter Turnout [PDF]
International Review of Law and Economics, 2012 The paper investigates the effect of electoral rules on voter turnout. It focuses on Italian municipalities, where voting schemes are differentiated by the size of the city: a single ballot system applies to municipalities with less than 15,000 inhabitants, while a dual ballot system is in place above that threshold.
Guglielmo Barone, Guido de Blasio
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Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004
I use variation across markets in the timing of television's introduction to identify its impact on voter turnout. The estimated effect is significantly negative, accounting for between a quarter and a half of the total decline in turnout since the 1950s.
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I use variation across markets in the timing of television's introduction to identify its impact on voter turnout. The estimated effect is significantly negative, accounting for between a quarter and a half of the total decline in turnout since the 1950s.
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Economic Theories of Voter Turnout
The Economic Journal, 2002(i) The voting paradox Why would the rational individual bother to spend time and resources to become well informed, go to the polls on the election day and maybe even wait in a queue? Why would a rational voter vote? (Downs, 1957) (ii) The paradox of indeterminacy If they vote why do they care who they vote for?
Dhillon, A, Peralta, Susana
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Voter ID Laws and Voter Turnout
Atlantic Economic Journal, 2019In recent years, many states have enacted laws imposing strict identification requirements for voting. Proponents contend such laws are necessary to prevent voter fraud while opponents claim the laws disenfranchise legitimate voters, particularly black and Hispanic voters.
Lauren R. Heller +2 more
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Journal of Labor Research, 1988
Conventional wisdom suggests that union members and their families are more politically active, and more likely to vote, than nonmembers. This study presents, to our knowledge, the first systematic empirical examination of that conventional wisdom. Results suggest that union members are more likely than nonmembers to vote in a general election, and ...
John Thomas Delaney +2 more
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Conventional wisdom suggests that union members and their families are more politically active, and more likely to vote, than nonmembers. This study presents, to our knowledge, the first systematic empirical examination of that conventional wisdom. Results suggest that union members are more likely than nonmembers to vote in a general election, and ...
John Thomas Delaney +2 more
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2020
Abstract This chapter provides a brief history of voter turnout in the U.S. It documents growth from a small electorate to one that mobilized some 80 percent of eligible voters by the middle of the nineteenth century, and a decline to lower turnout through much of the twentieth and into the twenty-first century despite repeated ...
Daron R. Shaw, John R. Petrocik
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Abstract This chapter provides a brief history of voter turnout in the U.S. It documents growth from a small electorate to one that mobilized some 80 percent of eligible voters by the middle of the nineteenth century, and a decline to lower turnout through much of the twentieth and into the twenty-first century despite repeated ...
Daron R. Shaw, John R. Petrocik
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Social identity and voter turnout [PDF]
, 2008 This paper uses the unique social structure of Arab communities to examine the effect of social identity on voter turnout. We first show that voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who shares their social group (signified by last name) as compared to other candidates.
Avi Ben-Bassat, Momi Dahan
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The Cultural Sources of the Gender Gap in Voter Turnout
British Journal of Political Science, 2021Filip Kostelka, Ruth Dassonneville
exaly