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Vote Centers as a Strategy to Control Election Administration Costs

SAGE Open, 2014
The rising costs of election administration in an era of fiscal stress have motivated some local officials to test the feasibility of ideas for reducing election costs while enhancing voter convenience and perhaps even increasing voter turnout.
David H. Folz
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Trying to Turn up the Turnout: Youth Wings and the Youth Vote in the 2015 General Election

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
The political participation of 18 to 24-year-olds in British general elections is substantially lower than for other age groups. As a result, young people are frequently labelled in the media as being disaffected with traditional politics.
Sarah Pickard
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Absolutely Relative: How Education Shapes Voter Turnout in the United States. [PDF]

Soc Indic Res, 2023
Kim Y.
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Voter Turnout and City Performance [PDF]

, 2014
We study the impact of exogenous variation in Italian municipal elections'voter turnout rates on city performance scores and elected mayors' indicators of valence. First, we build a simple model of voluntary and costly expressive voting, where the relative weight of ideology and valence issues over voting costs determines how people vote, and if they ...
LO PRETE, Anna, REVELLI, Federico
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Powerful transformations: The experiences of higher education teaching staff who were first‐generation university students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Historically, a university education has been seen primarily as a route for the middle classes to achieve professional qualifications while structural barriers have served to restrict entry to individuals from particular demographics. First‐generation students (FGS), often with low socio‐economic backgrounds, face multiple barriers to Higher ...
Helen Williams, Ellen‐Alyssa Gambles
wiley   +1 more source

Americans discount the effect of friction on voter turnout. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Mazar A, Tomaino G, Carmon Z, Wood W.
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Length of Compulsory Education and Voter Turnout - Evidence from a Staged Reform [PDF]

In this study, a long-term impact of additional schooling at the lower end of the educational distribution is measured on voter turnout. Schooling is instrumented with a staged Norwegian school reform, which increased minimum attainment by two years ...
Panu Pelkonen
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Evaluating a Voter Outreach Initiative [PDF]

, 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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Climate assemblies involving children and youth as socio‐educational spaces: Perceived success factors, challenges and opportunities

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate assemblies have emerged as participatory mechanisms and as socio‐educational spaces for engaging citizens in climate decision‐making and promoting sustainability learning. However, to date, initiatives involving children and young people remain underexplored.
Gisela Cebrián, Justin Dillon
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Voting and Electoral Behavior in 2024 European Parliament Elections: A Quantitative Approach

Social Sciences
This study evaluates the link between economic voting and electoral behavior in the 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections. This study is grounded in both selective perception and economic voting theories, examining how different independent factors ...
Silviu Grecu, Simona Vranceanu, Horia Chiriac   +2 more
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