We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the …. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

news leads to an increase in turnout in municipal elections, a higher probability of the incumbent mayor being reelected …

We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on … Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an … increase in the average quality of candidates competing at the electoral race produces a positive impact on turnout. To handle …

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, and no evidence that the Internet systematically benefits single parties … Internet effect between national and local elections to a crowding out of national but not local newspapers. …

-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …

determinants of voting for right-wing parties on the district level are compared to those for mainstream and other protest parties …

problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic …-Democrat differential was also observed for the 2000 Bush-Gore contest. Prediction market based analyses of all Presidential elections since …

the immigrant share increases. Our results indicate that in the elections some Danish voters voice their displeasure about …

-wing "Republikaner" party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …

elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …