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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Voter Participation"”.
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Voter participation in nineteenth century British parliamentary elections
A rational voter will vote only when the expected benefits outweigh the costs of voting. The costs of voting include not only transportation costs and wages forgone, but also any bribe to abstain. The product of the probability of affecting the outcome and the utility difference between the …
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Voter Participation Across Space and Time: Institutions, Contexts, and Citizens, 1828--2000
… available for a fraction of the period of mass voter participation in American electoral history. This dissertation explores turnout from an alternative, macro-level perspective. In doing so, it highlights the institutional and contextual factors that have produced marked variation in turnout …
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Effects of Railway Labor Act Election Rule Changes on Voter Participation and Unionization Activity
… effects of the voting change on unionization and voter participation for industries covered under the Railway Labor Act. Data from airline and railroad related union elections were mined pre and post procedural change and analyzed. Chi-square analysis revealed no significant change in union …
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An evaluation of the electronic and print media influence on voter participation in Lusaka District of Zambia: A case of Munali Constituency
… the influence of electronic and print media on voter participation in Munali Constituency of Lusaka District of Zambia. It was guided by three objectives which were: to establish whether voter participation is influenced by the electronic and print media; to investigate how the electronic and …
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An evaluation of the electronic and print media influence on voter participation in Lusaka District of Zambia: A case of Munali Constituency
… the influence of electronic and print media on voter participation in Munali Constituency of Lusaka District of Zambia. It was guided by three objectives which were: to establish whether voter participation is influenced by the electronic and print media; to investigate how the electronic and …
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Higher education institutions, voter registration, voter education, and voter participation: a study of college students in the 2016 presidential and 2018 mid-term congressional elections
… and the 2018 Mid-term Congressional Election, voter registration and voter participation rates showed significant improvements over previous trends in voters ages 18-29. This study aimed to understand the various environmental factors, campus features, and educational interventions used by …
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Political Participation in a Digital Age: An Integrated Perspective on the Impacts of the Internet on Voter Turnout
… Internet voting is the effect it could have on voter participation. Numerous studies have called for research on the impact of technology on voter turnout; however, existing literature has yet to develop a comprehensive model of the key factors that influence Internet voting adoption. In light …
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Participatory resources and African American voter turnout: A comparative analysis of the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections
… between African American and White political participation. Drawing from the theoretical assumptions of pluralism and structural functionalism, the thesis conceptualizes that voter turnout can be evaluated by comparing socioeconomic, socioreligious, and political variables. In analyzing data …
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Who Really Votes? An Examination of Differential Voting Participation
… understudied phenomenon of differential voting participation, or participation in some contests, but not others on the same ballot. Using aggregate voting data, simulated election experiments and survey data, I endeavor to establish that differential voting participation is indeed worthy of …
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Influência do uso das forças federais nas eleições de 2020: estudo de caso na cidade de aroeiras do Itaim/PI
… impact on the electoral dynamics, influencing voter participation, candidate behavior, and public perception of the integrity of the process. This study highlights the complexity of the relationships between federal forces and local elections, emphasizing the need for clearer and more …
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The Usability Implications of Long Ballot Content for Paper, Electronic, and Mobile Voting Systems
… procedures. One potential solution, allowing voters to cast ballots on Internet-enabled mobile devices, could potentially increase voter participation, reduce election administration costs, increase election flexibility, and provide the ability for voters to interact with familiar technology. …
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The Prospects of I-voting in America
… of internet voting and its potential to alter voter participation. This thesis provides a critical overview of past experiments, current studies, and the possible consequences of implementing voting over the internet. As internet use increases for education, personal communication, business and …
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Jacksonian Democracy and the Electoral College: Politics and Reform in the Method of Selecting Presidential Electors, 1824-1833
… of political parties and the increase in voter participation during this time, none have focused on how politicians sought to use the method of selecting electors to further party development in the country. Between 1824 and 1832 twelve states changed their methods of choosing electors. In …
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Voter turnout in Saskatchewan : how important are civic education and community participation?
Voter participation among Saskatchewan’s citizens has decreased in both federal and provincial elections, especially in the past decade or so, and especially among 18-24 year olds. Provincially, turnout has fallen almost 20 percentage points over a four-year period. Saskatchewan voter turnout in …
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Factors influencing the intention of youth to adopt electronic voting in South Africa
… (e-voting) systems. E-voting systems enable voters to participate in elections remotely, using internet-based technologies. In 2020, the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa stated its intention to introduce e-voting to lower the costs of voting, improve electoral transparency and …
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Local Social Forces, Household Finance, and Real Estate
… elections. I create a novel dataset that matches voters registered in North Carolina to their mortgage decisions., and then use a difference-in-differences design that compares initially highly leveraged homeowners to their equity rich neighbors and exploits variation in house price declines …
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Essays in empirical political economy
… consists of four chapters on the causes of voter participation. In the first chapter, I study the effects of voting costs through a novel, quasi-experimental design based on geographic discontinuities. I compare parcels and census blocks located near borders between adjacent voting …
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Macroeconomic Indicators of Working Class Voter Abstention in US Presidential Elections, 1948-2004
… democracies after WWII and the "puzzle of participation" in US presidential elections. More specifically, I seek to illustrate first how economic convergence within the West and then the transition from Keynesian to monetarist policy rhetoric reflexively diminish the degree to which US …
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An examination of election administration and voter turnout in Nigeria (2011- 2019)
The participation of the citizens in decisions on how a country is being governed is a crucial enterprise in a democratic entity. In Nigeria and every other developing democracy in the world, the credible and most available platform for citizens to participate in politics is election. However, this …