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Information disclosure in elections with sequential costly participation
Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2020
Electoral legislation varies across countries and within countries over time, and across different types of elections in terms of how it allows publication of intermediate election results including turnout and candidates' vote shares during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model...
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Impact of internal migration on political participation in turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-14
-shaped. Immigration, emigration, large population, a large number of parliament members elected from a constituency, participation by … migrant concentrations, and that in Turkey, political participation is highest among the youngest voters are the novel …
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Coup De Etat, Fraud, Counterfeited Elections and the Art of Tearing a Nation
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011
The current political situation in Sudan has deteriorated with the secession of its Southern part, the Darfur dilemma and the growing public feelings of deprivation, political disparities, elitism that possess the whole country. However, evidence proves that the situation is an accumulation of...
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Political training as a pathway to power : the impact of participation in student union councils on candidate emergence
Lundin, Martin; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Zetterberg, Pär - 2013
participation research by showing that activities in associations increase political involvement. …
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Vor der Europawahl: wie lässt sich die demokratische Legitimität verbessern?
In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 4, pp. 239-257
participation at the Union level, should not be underestimated in their legitimising influence for the Union as an associated …
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Participation Dilemma : The Logic of Voter Turnout in Authoritarian Elections
Mehrdad, Navid - 2018
Why do the electorate vote or abstain from voting under competitive authoritarianism? Elite rent seeking and rent distribution are recognized as main determinants of turnout in authoritarian elections, but the logic of voting decision on the side of an oppositional electorate remains...
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Civic engagement in the Americas
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2018
This paper estimates the effect of voting eligibility on civic engagement measured along three dimensions: political motivation, political activities, and political knowledge. These outcomes originate in the AmericasBarometer 2004-2016 surveys of eligible voters. To identify the effects the...
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Voting Advice Applications and Elections
Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, … - 2021
We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
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Voting advice applications and elections
Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino L.; Schelker, Mark; … - 2021
We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421257
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Glass houses and friends-and-neighbors voting : an exploratory analysis of the impact of political scandal on localism
Mixon, Franklin G. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-10
The 2017 U.S. Senate Special Election in Alabama, which was decided on 12 December 2017, was one of the most contentious and scandal-laden political campaigns in recent memory. The Republican candidate, Roy Moore, gained notoriety during the 2017 campaign when a number of women alleged to...
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