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No Surprises, Please : Voting Costs and Electoral Turnout
Alipour, JV; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
We study how seemingly benign changes to voting costs affect electoral turnout, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the assignment of polling places in Munich (Germany). Using an event study design, we find that polling place relocations cause a persistent shift from in-person to mail-in...
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Migrants' Missing Votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
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Electoral Reform and Voter Coordination
Fiva, Jon H. - 2019
Electoral reform creates new strategic coordination incentives for voters, but these effects are difficult to isolate. We identify how the reform of the Norwegian electoral system in 1919, when single-member districts (SMDs) were replaced with multi- member proportional representation (PR),...
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Competitive Gerrymandering and the Popular Vote
Bierbrauer, Felix; Polborn, Mattias - 2021
Gerrymandering undermines representative democracy by creating many uncompetitive legislative districts, and generating the very real possibility that a party that wins a clear majority of the popular vote does not win a majority of districts. We present a new approach to the determination of...
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Uncovered Power : External Agenda Setting, Sophisticated Voting, and Transnational Lobbying
Battilana, Silvia Console - 2021
Where does the balance of power lie in a policy - making institution with an external agenda setter, legislators, and lobbies? In a multiple round majority rule game with sophisticated actors, we show that the agenda setter obtains its most preferred policy outcome even if all lobbies and...
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Read My Lips? Taxes and Elections
Fuest, Clemens; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021
We introduce a new dataset that includes quantitative harmonized indices of tax reforms based on qualitative information of about 900 Economic Surveys from the OECD and 37,000 tax-related news from the IBFD archives. The data set provides indicators on tax reforms for tax rates and tax bases,...
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Political Support, Cognitive Dissonance and Political Preferences
Artiga González, Tanja; Capozza, Francesco; Granic, … - 2022
conceptualize our arguments in a theoretical model of policy preference changes rooted in cognitive dissonance theory. A pre …-registered, online experiment with 1,200 U.S. participants confirms our main hypotheses. As predicted by cognitive dissonance theory …
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Young Voters and Budget Deficits
Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2023
This paper exploits a novel trial in Norwegian local elections in 2011 to provide empirical evidence on fiscal 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...
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Collective Emotions and Protest Vote
Altomonte, Carlo - 2019
We leverage on important findings in social psychology to build a behavioral theory of protest vote. An individual …, i.e. when her relative deprivation increases. In line with the Intergroup Emotions Theory, this feeling is amplified if … populist rhetoric. The theory predicts higher support for the protest party when individuals identify more strongly with their …
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