The question of why some people vote in American national elections and others do not has been the focus of a vast … turnout (Wolfinger and Rosenstone 1980; Teixeira 1987, 1992). A consensus on "why", in the form of theories and evidence on … (NES), finding that the likelihood of one’s voting increases with the county’s census response rate, controlling for the …

anomaly as the high turnout of 1992. Unfortunately, there are few clues as to what factors peculiar to the 1988 elections led …Various possible explanations for the turnout increase of nearly 6 percentage points in the 1992 U.S. presidential … election as compared to the 1988 election are examined, using both survey and state-level data. The turnout impact of Perot …

elections, providing a unique opportunity to examine its impact on turnout inequality across demographic groups. The adoption of …Many researchers blame voter registration requirements for inequalities in turnout rates across various groups in … EDR is found to be associated with large and significant improvements in the turnout rates of young persons relative to …

This county-level study examines factors associated with the rate of voided presidential ballots in the 1996 elections … voting equipment that can be programmed to eliminate overvoting. The rate of voided ballots is lower in larger counties, and … generate the lowest rates of voided ballots among types of voting equipment, with punch card systems generating the highest …

Why does the leftist party vote increase when turnout increases in some countries and not in others? Why does this … turnout and electoral results. This paper argues that in order to adequately address these questions we need to focus on three … elements: class voting, the mechanisms behind whether the correlation is observed over the short or long-term, and the use of …

conformity exerted a strong, persistent, and predictable influence on voting in national elections from 1991 to 2003. This … analysis examines how the effect of social conformity on Russian voters might have changed from earlier elections as a result … aligns with the interests of voters, and whether this type of analysis can speak to fairness of the elections. …

In this article, we report on the incidence of punch-card and other voting equipment by ethnicity, incomes and other … variables, combining county-level demographic data from the Census Bureau with county-level data on voting equipment collected … large minority populations to retain antiquated or inferior voting equipment. …

Using time-series cross-section data on state-level registration and turnout, "motor voter" registration programs … an opportunity to register via motor voter until several elections after implementation of the program. Registration … effects are estimated to reach about 13 percentage points, with a turnout impact of roughly half of that level. As very few …

made it very difficult to document strategic behavior empirically. Exploiting the incentive structure of Germany's voting … system to solve the fundamental identification problem, this paper estimates the extent of strategic voting in large, real …-world elections. The evidence indicates that approximately 35% of voters abandon their most preferred candidate if she is not in …