is much improved if mild law is endogenously chosen, i.e. self-imposed. We show that voting for mild law induces …

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848-2009), we investigate whether …

's recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

turnout is robust and there is no relevant heterogeneity of the increase across municipalities. We argue that voting is an act …

Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … referendums on lowering the voting age from 20 to 18. We focus on the role of institutional price variations by (i) the depth of … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present …

The empirical question of voting preferences and how these may change (swing) is yet to be answered, as there is little … first-hand microeconomic evidence on swing voting. We focus on the interactions between voters' age and political cynicism …. Towards this end, we apply a stated and revealed preference framework to assess swing voting, using data from the Dutch …