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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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Voter Turnout Among Compulsory Voting Countries: Evidence from 1973 to 2018
PoliticonDespite 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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Voter turnout and fiscal policy [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2011 Though a large literature on the determinants of turnout has flourished, there is scant evidence on the causal impact of turnout on policies implemented in practice. Using data on French municipalities and instrumental variables for turnout based on temperature and influenza variations, we show that a one percent increase in turnout decreases on ...
Godefroy, Raphael, Henry, Emeric
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On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 In prominent voting models, expected pivotality drives voters’ turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. In practice, many individuals turn out for reasons unrelated to pivotality, and their votes overwhelm the forces analyzed in pivotality-based models.
Kaplow, Louis, Kominers, Scott Duke
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Examining Voter Turnout: A Look at Participatory Budgeting and Political Participation in Romania
Transylvanian Review of Administrative SciencesThe gap between elected authorities and citizens is widening in many democracies due to declining political engagement. This article examines whether participatory budgeting (PB) is linked to voter turnout in Romania.
Alexandru Andrei Ivan +2 more
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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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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 +1 more
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Will Concurrent Elections Reshape the Electorate?
California Journal of Politics and Policy, 2020 In 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Voter Participation Rights Act (SB 415) into law. As its title suggests, the bill aimed to increase turnout in local elections by forcing all California jurisdictions to hold elections concurrently ...
Jonathan Collins +2 more
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Public Health in PracticeObjectives: There are numerous population health challenges confronting the United States (U.S.), including the unhealthy lifestyle – chronic disease pandemics.
Ross Arena +4 more
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The Full Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Political Participation
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020 This article examines the impact of both the Medicaid expansion and the private insurance-related components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on voter turnout and registration.
Charles Courtemanche +2 more
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