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 …

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 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 …

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …

groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the theoretical predictions based on two decades of roll-call voting in the U …

incentivizing their supporters to vote and discouraging the supporters of the competing party from voting. We show that the latter …

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 …