expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where … more is at stake. We test this prediction, by studying how turnout is affected by exogenous variation in governments …' financial flexibility to provide pork for their voters. By utilizing simultaneous elections for different offices, we identify a …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole’s “feedback” case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …

liberal-conservative spectrum are controlled for in the analysis of voting behavior, trade barrier preferences lose their … affect voting behavior through channels involving identity-driven factors that are different from the channels through which …

ideological policy dimension. Voters achieve this outcome by following a simple lexicographic voting strategy. They cast their …

no impact on aggregate turnout. The point estimates are precise enough to rule out even moderately sized effects. By … regression discontinuity design with millions of observations suggests that advertising’s impact on elections is largely due to …

-share-per-seat measures. Whether elections under multimember proportional representation systems are judged more or less competitive than … single-member plurality or runoff elections depends directly on the units in which competitiveness is assessed (and hence on …

which lead to these hypotheses are presented as well as the theory of expressive voting, and a survey of the available … theory of expressive voting. …

issues, in order to influence voting decisions of marginal groups, with non trivial consequences for turnout rates. In my … model of probabilistic voting, I derive equilibrium campaign strategies of the candidates and predictions on turnout. The … effects on different groups of voters, to explain turnout rates actually observed. We also show descriptive evidence on US …

US voters have been moving apart in the last twenty years. This paper analyzes how their voting participation has … partitioned by looking at US counties in the 2012 Presidential elections. To tackle this question, we propose a methodology that …