Caporale, Tony; Poitras, Marc - In: Applied Economics 46 (2014) 29, pp. 3630-3638
We estimate a time series model of voter turnout for 34 US presidential elections, 1880--2012. Employing a variety of econometric techniques, our major results are as follows. (1) A negative and significant structural shift in voter turnout occurs in 1972 and is too large to be explained by the...