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Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout [PDF]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013 Using county-level data across several decades, and various OLS and TSLS models, we find that higher local wages and employment lower turnout in elections for governor, senator, US Congress and state House of Representatives, but have no effect on presidential turnout.
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Melvin Stephens Jr.
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Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2022 A distinct problem for American democracy is that voter participation rates remain higher among older, wealthier, and more highly educated citizens. Through their nonpartisan get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts, nonprofit organizations can help to remedy the
LeRoux Kelly +2 more
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Voter Turnout with Peer Punishment [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2020 We introduce a model where social norms of voting participation are strategically chosen by competing political parties and determine voters’ turnout. Social norms must be enforced through costly peer monitoring and punishment. When the cost of enforcement of social norms is low, the larger party is always advantaged. Otherwise, in the spirit of Olson
Levine D K, Mattozzi A
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Voter Turnout in the Indian States: An Empirical Analysis [PDF]
, 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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Research & Politics, 2020 Although we know a lot about why citizens vote or abstain in elections, the social inequality of low turnout in European elections has attracted little attention.
Stefan Haußner, Michael Kaeding
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The decrease of simultaneous local election voter turnout in the Lamongan District
Masyarakat, 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
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Examining voter turnout using multiscale geographically weighted regression: The case of Slovakia
Moravian 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
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Exit polls and voter turnout [PDF]
Journal 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
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Schooling and Voter Turnout: Is There an American Exception? [PDF]
SSRN 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
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Election Frequency and Voter Turnout
Comparative 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
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