therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties …Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of … differences. Results hold for elections of the national and EU parliament and for different areas within Poland. Surprisingly, we …

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study … administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a reduction in ethnic voting when administrative regions become less …

We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior … change in voting behavior and we find no effects on aggregate electoral outcomes …

–2014). Relating tax reforms to the timing of elections, we examine electoral cycles in tax reforms. Our results show that politicians … postpone tax rate increases to after elections. A key innovation of our data set is the coverage of harmonized indices for six …

determining her vote - both relative to her choices on other cases and relative to other justices voting on the same case. We … develop and empirically assess a model of voting in which judges trade off expressive and instrumental concerns. The evidence …

forgo voting today and turn to mail-in voting in ensuing elections. The drop in participation is stronger in precincts with …We study how seemingly benign changes to voting costs affect electoral turnout, exploiting plausibly exogenous … relocations cause a persistent shift from in-person to mail-in voting and a transitory drop in overall turnout by 0 …

-share-per-seat measures. Whether elections under multimember proportional representation systems are judged more or less competitive than … single-member plurality or runoff elections depends directly on the units in which competitiveness is assessed (and hence on …

that governments release overly optimistic GDP growth forecasts ahead of elections to increase the reelection probability …