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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Baez, Javier - 2012

variation in program enrollment across voting booths. We find that FA has a positive effect on political participation in the …

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Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition : Evidence from Colonial India

Cassan, Guilhem - 2020

We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the …

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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the Hiv/Aids Epidemic

Mansour, Hani - 2020

This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the...

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Electoral Participation as a Measure of Social Inclusion for Natives, Immigrants and Descendants in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2021

participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being substantially lower than for native born citizens and questions have …. We use two unique sets of data to conduct our research. The 2006 Electoral Participation Survey contains information on … individual electoral participation in national, county and municipal elections. We match this information to registry data from …

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Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences : Long-Run Evidence from the UK

Jessen, Jonas; Kühnle, Daniel; Wagner, Markus - 2021

Does voting have downstream consequences for turnout and political preferences? While research initially showed strong support for the notion that the experience of voting fosters civic habits and political engagement, recent work has cast doubt on how universal these patterns are. We contribute...

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Voting as a War of Attrition

Kwiek, Maksymilian - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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When is Voting Optimal?

Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2014

We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper sheds...

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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas - 2011

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees

Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011

This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...

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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes : Evidence from Europe

Peri, Giovanni - 2020

There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...

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