We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that …, broadband fostered other forms of online and offline participation. Over time, the negative effect was reverted due to the …

This paper provides an empirical investigation of electoral participation and communicative voting in 14 European … countries. We estimate a multi-level voting process where individuals face a participation decision (whether to vote or abstain … electoral participation. Thus, our results question the empirical relevance of the swing voter's curse theory in large elections …

We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that …, broadband fostered other forms of online and offline participation. Over time, the negative effect was reverted due to the …

We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of political participation, using … that it was positively associated with other forms of political participation, both online and offline: the emergence of … with the view that: 1) the effect of Internet availability on political participation changes across different forms of …