We study a unique quasi-experiment in Austria, where compulsory voting laws are changed across Austria's nine states at … different times. Analyzing state and national elections from 1949-2010, we show that compulsory voting laws with weakly enforced … preferences suggest these results occur because individuals swayed to vote due to compulsory voting are more likely to be non …

This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided American women a constitutional guarantee to … the franchise. We assemble data from a variety of sources to document and explore trends in women’s political … participation, issue preferences, and partisanship since that time. We show that in the early years following enfranchisement, women …

-in voting for the canton of Geneva. Using an event study design, we find that the release of a closer poll causes voter turnout …

voting and social learning, we illustrate that sequential elections place too much weight on the preferences and information …

We study the effect of photo ID laws on voting using a difference-in-differences estimation approach around Rhode … voting behavior among those with drivers' licenses versus those without, before versus after the law. Turnout, registration …, and voting conditional on registration fell for those without licenses after the law passed. We do not find evidence that …

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) has been called one of the most effective pieces of civil rights legislation in U … voting rights in some southern states brought about by one requirement of the VRA - the elimination of literacy tests at …

voting and implementing term limits. We find that an approval voting system reduces the distortions by 7.5 percent. Term …

result, women's suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in …