Search Results - subject:"Voting Behavior"

Ethnicity and Voting at Scale : Evidence from Uganda

Bird, Samuel S.; Michuda, Aleksandr - 2023

ethnicity measures to estimate the effect of ethnicity on voting behavior in the 2016 general election. Local variation in … ethnicity affects voting behavior at the level of the polling station, including interaction effects between certain ethnic …

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Electricity Prices and the Manufacturing Vote : Evidence from Sweden

BrÃ¤nnlund, Anton; Amcoff, Jan; Österman, Marcus; … - 2023

The scholarly interest in the political consequences of industrial decline across Western nations is growing. Despite the current global energy crisis, the electoral impact of increasing natural gas and electricity prices has received less attention, even though it represents a direct threat to...

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Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation : evidence from the United Kingdom's age of austerity

Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno; Metzger, Laura - 2023

This paper studies the effect of austerity on forms of political participation-including voting, appealing for reform, and peaceful protesting-and the role of preferences for redistribution in shaping the relationship between individual exposure to austerity and political participation. The...

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Apportionment in times of digitalization

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2023

We critically discuss the Jefferson/D'Hondt and Webster/Sainte-Laguë methods, which are used to allocate parliament seats to parties in the mixed-member proportional representation systems in Germany, New Zealand, Bolivia, South Africa, South Korea, Scotland and Wales, as well as in the...

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Cross-State Strategic Voting

Dahl, Gordon B.; Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; … - 2023

We estimate 3% of the U.S. voter population is registered to vote in two states. Which state these double-registrants choose to vote in reflects incentives and costs, being more prevalent in swing states (higher incentive) and states which automatically send out mail-in ballots (lower cost). We...

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Differences in the Voting Patterns of Experts, Peers, and Fans - Analyzing the NFL’s All-Star Team Selections

Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, Philipp; Gänßle, Sophia; … - 2023

Experts’ voting behavior is conjectured to be more objective than peer voting (own group/ peers) and public voters … (everyone interested), who are supposedly influenced by all sorts of subjective aspects. We examine differences in voting … behavior between these groups by analyzing the voting outcomes for all-star teams in American Football. This paper analyzes the …

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Democracy on the Line : Polling Place Closures in Georgia and the Wait Time to Vote

Cachon, Gerard P; Kaaua, Dawson - 2023

Problem definition: Due to the Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court ruling in 2013, Georgia was no longer required to get federal preclearance for changes to its voting processes. In response, county election administrators throughout Georgia modified their voting practices between the 2012 and...

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Is Populism Reversible? Evidence From Italian Local Elections During The Pandemic

Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2023

We study the effect of economic insecurity on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We implement a difference-in-differences approach that exploits exogenous variation across municipalities in the share of inactive workers due to the economic lockdown introduced by the...

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Getting A Seat At The (Electoral) Table : Partisan Poll Workers and Electoral Bias

Duarte, Raul; Carrizosa, Andres - 2023

Does the partisanship of poll workers affect electoral outcomes? Many countries use partisan and adversarial vote-counting systems where poll workers are party representatives and mutual control is expected to provide fairness. Yet in countries with dominant party regimes, parties often have de...

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What Was and What Shall Be : Economic Attitudes and Cognitive Dissonance Following Election Outcomes

Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian - 2023

Two prominent mechanisms have been advanced to explain the effects of election outcomes on economic attitudes/perceptions: partisan competence attribution, based on voters’ genuine belief of an elected party’s competence; and partisan dissonance resolution, where voters change their economic...

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