We develop a model of political competition with endogenous turnout and endogenous platforms. Parties trade off …

use funds to increase participation. We confirm this hypothesis by showing that, in the following elections, turnout is … supporters or to raise turnout. Estimates from regression, matching and RDD methods show no evidence of local governments … targeting areas of core support. Instead, investment goes disproportionately to low turnout areas, suggesting that politicians …

in terms of how it allows publication of intermediate election results including turnout and candidates' vote shares … observed in real life elections (no disclosure, turnout disclosure and vote count disclosure), I find that vote count …

public policy may foster or dampen political participation depending on social group affiliation. The policy change we use to … boxes in national elections and they tend to vote more for Arab parties. In contrast, the political participation of Jewish …