turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured … just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate …

We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the …. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

Previous models of the popular vote in U.S. Presidential elections emphasize economic growth and price stability, the …

Analyses of assembly elections often assume that voters have well-defined preferences over candidates, even though …

there is a statistically significant relationship between the size of online social networks and election voting and … difference in closely contested elections. …

I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to … elections. In particular, inequality increases contributions to Republicans, but not to Democrats, as predicted by the model. …

In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …

In this article, we report on the incidence of punch-card and other voting equipment by ethnicity, incomes and other … variables, combining county-level demographic data from the Census Bureau with county-level data on voting equipment collected … large minority populations to retain antiquated or inferior voting equipment. …