Despite the likelihood of an individual vote changing the final outcome is close to zero and voting is not costless, we … expressive voting motives and quantify the relative importance of each of them. One of the main reasons for respondents go to … later stage. Individuals who belong to minority groups are likely to state that they turn out to vote because voting is a …

-based - voting restrictions. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel dataset that codes the presence of race-based restrictions on … voting in 131 jurisdictions over 1730-2000 (consisting primarily of English-speaking subnational jurisdictions with … existence and abolition of property qualifications for voting. They are consistent with a framework in which an imperial …

I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …

-moderating theory (Alesina and Rosenthal 1996) that focuses purely on midterm cycles and split-ticket voting absent economic conditions …

socioeconomic background. I show that voting and political opinions are better predicted by personality and economic preferences … education gaps in voting and ideology. The detailed survey data and large number of parties represented in Dutch parliament …

migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … der Maquiladora-Industrie in Mexiko (Kapitel 4), dem Zusammenspiel von Migration und Handel und deren Auswirkungen auf die …

his paper surveys models of voting on redistribution. Under reasonable assumptions, the baseline model produces an …, redistribution is from rich to poor. Increasing inequality increases redistribution. However, under diŽerent assumptions about the … economic environment, redistribution may not be simply rich to poor, and inequality need not increase redistribution. Several …