no impact on aggregate turnout. The point estimates are precise enough to rule out even moderately sized effects. By … regression discontinuity design with millions of observations suggests that advertising's impact on elections is largely due to …

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 …

, 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 … point increase in the host country's turnout decreases the electoral participation of Chilean expatriates by nearly 1 …

candidates on the ballot affects the satisfaction and turnout of voters in low-profile elections in which most candidates are … experimental exit-poll of voters at local elections in two German states in 2014 in which respondents faced a hypothetical election … translates directly into a greater willingness to take part in the hypothetical election (“turnout”), especially for individuals …

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 …