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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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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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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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Asymmetric Partisan Voter Turnout Games [PDF]
Dynamic Games and Applications, 2021 AbstractSince Downs proposed that the act of voting is irrational in 1957, myriad models have been proposed to explain voting and account for observed turnout patterns. We propose a model in which partisans consider both the instrumental and expressive benefits of their vote when deciding whether or not to abstain in an election, introducing an ...
Cameron Guage, Feng Fu 0002
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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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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 +2 more
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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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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 +2 more
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How Can We Increase Turnout among Low Propensity Voters?
California Journal of Politics and Policy, 2020 . How can we increase voter turnout among low-propensity voters? Researchers and practitioners have found interventions that increase voter turnout, but these interventions tend to increase turnout among individuals already likely to vote, and therefore ...
Seth Hill +4 more
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