turnout at Portuguese municipal and legislative elections. The empirical results indicate that the performance of the national …This paper analyzes the impact of economic performance on voter turnout. We estimate an economic turnout model in which … economy is important only in legislative elections and that the regional and local unemployment rates tend to have non …

="CR30">2009</CitationRef>), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age …Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate … restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured just before elections, when they are …

datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have …