therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations …

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study … administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a reduction in ethnic voting when administrative regions become less …

organizations. We test this theory empirically by examining how the United States uses bilateral aid and IMF loans to buy other … countries’ votes in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Introducing new data on voting behavior in the UNSC over the … 1960-2015 period, our results show that states allied with the US receive more bilateral aid when voting in line with the …

performance from lowering the minimum voting age from 18 to 16. Using a difference in differences research strategy, we find that … this voting age change reduced the net operating surplus by around 600NOK (€60) per capita. This finding is consistent with … (reduced net operating surplus) due to the extension of the youth voting franchise mainly appear in governments with low party …

We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior … change in voting behavior and we find no effects on aggregate electoral outcomes …

. This may lead to exaggerated conservatism in the voting decision (status quo bias). To investigate how complexity affects … individual voting behavior, we develop a novel measure of proposition complexity (using official pre-referendum booklets) and …