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 …

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 …

Bavarian mayors are elected by majority rule in two-round (runoff) elections. Between the first and second ballot of … prohibited and only postal voting was allowed. We contrast turnout of the first and second ballot in 2020 with the first and … second ballots from previous elections in a difference-indifferences setting. The state of emergency led to a more than 10 …

We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on … Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an … increase in the average quality of candidates competing at the electoral race produces a positive impact on turnout. To handle …

One prediction of the calculus of voting is that electoral closeness positively affects turnout via a higher … probability of one vote being decisive. I test this theory with data on all mayoral elections in the German state of Bavaria … between 1946 and 2009. Importantly, I use constitutionally prescribed two-round elections to measure electoral closeness and …

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 …