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Voter turnout and the size of government [PDF]
European Journal of Political Economy, 2016 This paper uses Swedish and Finnish municipal data to investigate the effect of changes in voter turnout on the tax rate, public spending and vote-shares. A reform in Sweden in 1970, which overall lowered the cost of voting, is applied as an instrument for voter turnout in local elections. The reform increased voter turnout in Sweden.
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Gender and social conformity: Do men and women respond differently to social pressure to vote?
Social Influence, 2018 In this paper, we re-analyze data from a large-scale field experiment (N = 344,084) on voter turnout in order to determine whether men and women respond differently to social pressure aimed at voter mobilization.
Aaron C. Weinschenk +3 more
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Comparing the Election Systems for Overseas Constituency Representatives in Multiple Countries
Social SciencesAlthough electoral systems are a traditional focus in political science, limited research exists on the characteristics of overseas constituency representation.
Shuji Yamauchi, Takashi Sekiyama
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Research & PoliticsVoter identification (ID) requirements remain a contested policy issue in American elections, with existing research producing mixed findings about their causal effects on voter turnout.
Rivka Lipkovitz
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Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011 Three randomized experiments found that subtle linguistic cues have the power to increase voting and related behavior. The phrasing of survey items was varied to frame voting either as the enactment of a personal identity (e.g., “being a voter”) or as simply a behavior (e.g., “voting”).
Christopher J, Bryan +3 more
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32 | Voter turnout and vaccination coverage: is there an association?
Journal of Biological ResearchBackground. Voter turnout is considered an indicator of civic engagement, whereas adherence to vaccination programs may reflect the level of trust in public health institutions.
R. Vinci +7 more
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Voter Turnout and Political Rents [PDF]
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2015 AbstractIs the decline in voter turnout an indicator of a worse health of a representative democracy? We build a simple probabilistic‐voting model with endogenous turnout to address this question. We find that a lower turnout caused by a higher cost of voting implies higher political rents.
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SAGE Open, 2015 Proponents of voter photographic identification (ID) laws in the United States have argued that such measures can increase overall voter turnout. The implications of this proposition contradict classic models of voting behavior, which state that voting ...
Russell Weaver
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Ranked Choice Voting and Youth Voter Turnout: The Roles of Campaign Civility and Candidate Contact
Politics and Governance, 2021 Ranked choice voting (RCV) has become increasing popular in the United States as more cities and states begin allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference.
Courtney L. Juelich, Joseph A. Coll
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Vote centers and turnout by election type in Texas
Research & Politics, 2019 The use of vote centers—specific locations in a county where all voters will vote—is on the rise nationwide, as more than a dozen states used this process by 2018.
Jeronimo Cortina, Brandon Rottinghaus
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