social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …

Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …

This paper estimates the effect of voting eligibility on civic engagement measured along three dimensions: political … country-specific voting age laws. It is found that voter enfranchisement increases self-reported interest in politics … larger in countries with enforced mandatory voting. …

the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …

heterogeneous expectations in one-to-one matching models and voting models, and show that the relaxation of the hypothesis of common …

electoral participation in Paraguay. We find that public campaigns had no effect either on the probability of registration, or …