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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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Traditional political economy has paid primary attention to the structuring of the principal-agent relationship between citizens and politicians and the role of competition and institutions in disciplining political agents. However, as the electoral control of politicians and the credibility of...
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understand the role of local institutions and their impact on political participation. Especially the impact of divided …
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In this paper, we present a model of deliberation based on Rawls’s political liberalism. Our formalization gives a new perspective on his political theory. Moreover, we obtain quantitative results on political deliberation under Rawlsian rules. Finally, we elaborate two arguments in favor of...
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-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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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 …
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This essay reviews the ways in which field experiments have been used to study political participation. We begin by … research. Our review of the experimental literature on political participation focuses on two broad research domains related to …
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Participatory programs can reduce the informational and power asymmetries that engender mistrust. These programs, however, cannot include every citizen. Hence, it is important to evaluate if providing information about those programs could affect trust among those who do not participate. We...
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participation research by showing that activities in associations increase political involvement. …
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