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Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data

Using time-series cross-section data on state-level registration and turnout, "motor voter" registration programs mandated by the National Voter Registration Act are found to be effective in enhancing voter participation in the states that have already ...
Knack, Stephen
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A Meta‐Analytic Review of Board Characteristics and Carbon Emission Disclosure: The Moderating Effect of Contextual Factors

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between board governance and corporate carbon emission disclosure remains persistently inconsistent across the empirical literature, despite decades of accumulated evidence. Drawing on agency, stakeholder, legitimacy, institutional, and upper echelons perspectives within a single analytical framework, we conduct a three‐level ...
Mohamed Hegazy, Diego Prior, Mahmoud Zarea   +2 more
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Negative campaigning and electoral mobilization: empirical evidence from German state elections

Political Research Exchange
Recent research has been inconclusive about the systemic effects of negative campaigning. The available studies, most of which focus on the United States, either conclude that attack behavior decreases turnout, increases turnout, or has no effect on ...
Jürgen Maier, Sebastian Stier, Mona Dian   +2 more
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Evaluating a Voter Outreach Initiative

, 2009
· This article describes an initiative designed to increase voting rates among low-income and ethnic groups in southern and central California communities.
Dominguez Arms, Amy, Amy Dominguez Arms
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Steering Industrial Decarbonisation: Explaining OECD Policy Variation

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ongoing rise in CO2 emissions driven by energy‐intensive industries highlights the urgent need for targeted policy interventions, with national strategies playing a crucial role in the low‐carbon transition. However, the factors that shape the ambition of industrial decarbonisation policies remain poorly understood.
Ebba Minas
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of State Voting Processes in the 2020 Election: Estimating the Effects on Voter Turnout, Voting Method, and the Spread of COVID-19.

Rand Health Q, 2023
Absher S, Kavanagh J.
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Power, (De)Politicisation and Polycentric Governance: Evidence From UK Local Climate Policy

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article extends (de)politicisation theory to elucidate power dynamics in polycentric governance. It develops an original analytical framework to empirically investigate how governmental, societal and discursive (de)politicisation processes emerge within and across decision‐making centres. The framework focuses on dimensions of technocracy,
Timea Nochta, Samuel Warner, Louise Reardon   +2 more
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“We Are Willing to Change, If…”: Potential Impacts of Citizens' Assemblies on the Willingness to Change for Sustainability in Rural East German Municipalities

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of the democratic and social‐ecological crises, deliberative minipublics such as citizens' assemblies are increasingly implemented and discussed by scholars as a means for sound decision‐making and to enhance public support for sustainability transformations.
Lea Findeis, Nicolas Jager
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LOW VOTER TURNOUT: A SYMPTOM OF DEMOCRATIC DISCONTENT OR A DEEPER SYSTEMIC FAILURE?

Iustinianus Primus Law Review
The journey toward universal and equal suffrage, achieved primarily in the second half of the XX century, was a monumental step in shaping modern democratic societies.
Marko Krtolica
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Voter Turnout in Direct Democracy: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

We analyse voter turnout as a function of referendum types. An advisory referendum produces advice that a legislature may or may not take into account when choosing between two alternatives, whereas a binding referendum generates a decisive decision.
Tangerås, Thomas P., Søberg, Morten
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