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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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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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understand the role of local institutions and their impact on political participation. Especially the impact of divided …
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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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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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In "Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate," Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor analyze the causal effects of terrorist attacks on the political preferences of the Israeli electorate. In this comment, I discuss Berrebi and Klor's empirical approach -...
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participation research by showing that activities in associations increase political involvement. …
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