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 …

opportunity to estimate the turnout impact of EDR. Because of some important and neglected features of the "first wave" of EDR … EDR's turnout impact. Controlling for other factors, new EDR programs are associated with a turnout increase of about 6 … percentage points in the midterm elections (1990 to 1994), and 3 percentage points in the presidential elections (1992 to 1996 …

first in the lifetimes of most Americans in which a minority of the voting-age population bothered to vote. While that … outcome must be a source of embarrassment to many reform advocates, this study has shown that the turnout decline was in fact … at least two-thirds of the states, representing more than three quarters of the voting-age population. Similarly, the …

voting. Under the monotonicity condition implying that the preferred tax rate is decreasing in income, the literature …

between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …

We experimentally study behavior in a simple voting game where players have private information about their preferences …

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and … allows quantifying monetary benefits associated with each ticket. We find that turnout is much higher among students who … benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …

synthesis in moral psychology (Haidt, 2007: The new synthesis in moral psychology) the author proposes to modelize the voting …