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voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe …, 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 …
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voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe …, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650135
The question of why some people vote in American national elections and others do not has been the focus of a vast … turnout (Wolfinger and Rosenstone 1980; Teixeira 1987, 1992). A consensus on "why", in the form of theories and evidence on … (NES), finding that the likelihood of one’s voting increases with the county’s census response rate, controlling for the …
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anomaly as the high turnout of 1992. Unfortunately, there are few clues as to what factors peculiar to the 1988 elections led …Various possible explanations for the turnout increase of nearly 6 percentage points in the 1992 U.S. presidential … election as compared to the 1988 election are examined, using both survey and state-level data. The turnout impact of Perot …
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elections, providing a unique opportunity to examine its impact on turnout inequality across demographic groups. The adoption of …Many researchers blame voter registration requirements for inequalities in turnout rates across various groups in … EDR is found to be associated with large and significant improvements in the turnout rates of young persons relative to …
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emerges with nontrivial voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as … to individuals who agree with them and thereby confer vicarious utility on voters. Substantial equilibrium turnout … higher turnout by more informed and more educated individuals. For certain parameters, the model predicts that third party …
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expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where … more is at stake. We test this prediction, by studying how turnout is affected by exogenous variation in governments …' financial flexibility to provide pork for their voters. By utilizing simultaneous elections for different offices, we identify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274905
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501783
expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where … more is at stake. We test this prediction, by studying how turnout is affected by exogenous variation in governments …' financial flexibility to provide pork for their voters. By utilizing simultaneous elections for different offices, we identify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143749
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266