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

, 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
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Application of artificial neural networks in predicting voter turnout based on the analysis of demographic data

Polish Cartographical Review, 2019
The author presents the results of research on the use of artificial neural networks in predicting voter turnout. He describes the principles of operation of artificial neural networks, as well as detailed results of two machine learning methods used to ...
Michalak Piotr
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Correlates of Voter Turnout [PDF]

, 2021
Despite decades of research, there is no consensus as to the core correlates of national-level voter turnout. We argue that this is, in part, due to the lack of comprehensive, systematic empirical analysis. This paper conducts such an analysis.
Coma, Ferran Martínez i, Frank, Richard W, Martínez i Coma, Ferran, Frank, Richard   +3 more
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Electoral Arrangements and Turnout Variance at the Sub-National Level: Comparative Insights from Three Constituencies in Ghana

Modern Africa, 2020
Using micro-level data from three constituencies in Ghana, which are cases of high, average and low turnout respectively, I assess whether voters’ perceptions of the cost of voting (resource and time) can explain such variation in voter turnout.
Fortune Agbele
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The Political Geography of Voters and Political Participation: Evidence from Local Election in Suburban Indonesia

Indonesian Journal of Geography, 2017
The praxis of political issue including voter turnout and political participation does not exist in a vacuum. Therefore, geographical and spatial issues are frequently engaged and even embedded into it.
Pitri Yandri
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Closed Form Bayesian Inferences for Binary Logistic Regression with Applications to American Voter Turnout

Stats, 2022
Understanding the factors that influence voter turnout is a fundamentally important question in public policy and political science research. Bayesian logistic regression models are useful for incorporating individual level heterogeneity to answer these ...
Kevin Dayaratna, Jesse Crosson, Chandler Hubbard   +2 more
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Religiosity and Voter Turnout in Iran (A Case Study of the Presidential Elections during 2001-2017) [PDF]

Religion & Communication, 2020
According to theoretical and empirical research, religion is one of the determinants of electoral behavior. In Iran, religion has always been considered as an influential institution in the field of social life.
abolghasem heidarabadi, Ebrahim Salehabadi   +1 more
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Electoral Fraud and Voter Turnout [PDF]

SSRN 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, Iannantuoni, Giovanna, Maggian, Valeria   +2 more
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Voter Turnout Among Compulsory Voting Countries: Evidence from 1973 to 2018

Politicon
Despite significant evidence that compulsory voting affects voter turnout, several compulsory voting countries had abandoned this law. It raises the query of whether compulsory voting affects voter turnout at the population level of compulsory voting ...
Ikhsan Darmawan
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Turnout and Territorial Reform: Data from Sub municipal governments in Portugal

Data in Brief, 2020
This database is related to the voter turnout in five election cycles (2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017). The data was used in the original in the article “The effects of amalgamations on voter turnout: Evidence from sub-municipal governments in Portugal”
Miguel Rodrigues, António Tavares
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