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voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe …, we study how the host country's turnout affects expatriates' electoral participation in the 2017 Chilean Presidential … election. We focus on the 2014 European Parliament election turnout in the district of the Chilean's geocoded residence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797245
voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe …, we study how the host country's turnout affects expatriates' electoral participation in the 2017 Chilean Presidential … election. We focus on the 2014 European Parliament election turnout in the district of the Chilean's geocoded residence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650135
We present results from laboratory experimental elections in which voter information is endogenously provided by … candidates and voting is voluntary. We also compare advertisements that are costless to voters with those that reduce voter … voting is voluntary than when it is compulsory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574386
elections. We use four extensive datasets to estimate an economic turnout model in which local economic variables are included … the determinants of turnout at the 2001 municipal elections and at the 2002 legislative elections. Empirical results …This paper analyzes the impact of economic conditions on voter turnout at Portuguese legislative and municipal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010834019
elections. We use four extensive datasets to estimate an economic turnout model in which local economic variables are included … the determinants of turnout at the 2001 municipal elections and at the 2002 legislative elections. Empirical results …This paper analyzes the impact of economic conditions on voter turnout at Portuguese legislative and municipal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415538
expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where … more is at stake. We test this prediction, by studying how turnout is affected by exogenous variation in governments …' financial exibility to provide pork for their voters. By utilizing simultaneous elections for different offices, we identify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506447
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501783
explain observed patterns of participation and voting in U.S. national elections. We propose a unified model of turnout and … voting in presidential and congressional elections with heterogeneous voters. We estimate the model using individual level …Understanding citizens’ electoral behavior (e.g., selective abstention and split ticket voting), represents a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061918
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266
exploits a natural experiment to assess the causal impact of compulsory voting on turnout and, more importantly, to test … whether the impact is different across skill groups. I find that compulsory voting increases voter turnout by 18 percentage …A very important, yet unsettled, question is whether mandatory voting affects political participation. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737914