research relates to turnout and voting literature in general, and to campaigning and voter motivation more specifically … instrument by revealing potentially relevant information to the signer which increases the benefit from voting or reduces its … cost. The analysis is based on the complete sample of Swiss federal initiatives between 1978 and 2000 with aggregate voting …

We conduct a model validation analysis of several behavioral models of voter turnout, using laboratory data. We call … about some of the experimentally controlled parameters — in this case voting costs. We use quantal response equilibrium as … the underlying, common structure for estimation, and estimate models of instrumental voting, altruistic voting, expressive …

Why does the leftist party vote increase when turnout increases in some countries and not in others? Why does this … turnout and electoral results. This paper argues that in order to adequately address these questions we need to focus on three … elements: class voting, the mechanisms behind whether the correlation is observed over the short or long-term, and the use of …

This county-level study examines factors associated with the rate of voided presidential ballots in the 1996 elections … voting equipment that can be programmed to eliminate overvoting. The rate of voided ballots is lower in larger counties, and … generate the lowest rates of voided ballots among types of voting equipment, with punch card systems generating the highest …

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 …

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 …

exploits a natural experiment to assess the causal impact of compulsory voting on turnout and, more importantly, to test … whether the impact is different across skill groups. I find that compulsory voting increases voter turnout by 18 percentage …A very important, yet unsettled, question is whether mandatory voting affects political participation. This paper …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole’s “feedback” case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …