We study how seemingly benign changes to voting costs affect electoral turnout, exploiting plausibly exogenous … relocations cause a persistent shift from in-person to mail-in voting and a transitory drop in overall turnout by 0 … forgo voting today and turn to mail-in voting in ensuing elections. The drop in participation is stronger in precincts with …

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 …

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 …

generations. Exit options across different political entities lead to a joint evolution of local power structures …

strategic disadvantage: a greater voting power in forming a winning coalition is undermined by the threat of being overly …

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 incorporate prospect-theory preferences in a game-theoretic model to study voter turnout. We show that voter turnout …

We show how major shareholders can exploit their power over international organizations to hide their foreign … 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 …