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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"cost of voting"”.
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Essays On Social Norms
… In chapter one, I study the effect of such preferences in a dynamic game where players have preferences for appearing to be well-informed about the actions of past players. I find that such games display cyclical behavior, which I interpret as a model of `fads'. I show that the speed …
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Election Reform: Does Early Voting Impact Turnout In Municipal Elections?
… is low, especially in municipal elections. Early voting laws, which have been adopted by over half of the states within the United States, offer voters a chance to cast a ballot over a longer period of time thereby lowering the cost of voting. Early voting includes no excuse absentee voting, in …
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It's in the mail : the effect of vote by mail balloting on voter turnout and policy outcomes in U.S. elections
The goal of this dissertation is to aid our understanding of how electoral institutions in the United States affect political participation and, in turn, shape policy outcomes. I investigate this relationship by analyzing the all-mail balloting method known as Vote By Mail. Using a data set of 3310 …
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The Effect of Natural Disasters on Minority Voter Turnout, 1990-2016
<p>This paper studies four natural disaster categories--climatological, geophysical, hydrological, and meteorological--and their impact upon four elections--gubernatorial, House, President, and Senate--for the 1990-2016 time period in 3,113 US counties, excluding Alaska. The research focused on …
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The Unmotivated Voter: A Profile of the Unregistered and Non-Participating in Oregon, Washington, and Colorado.
<p>One of the central questions facing the political process is why some people regularly vote and others do not. There is abundant evidence to show two things about voting behavior. One is that amongst those who are registered to vote, whether measured by income or race, the less advantaged have …
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Essays in Experimental and Public Economics
… Economics: public goods provision and</p><p>voting theory. It consists of three independent papers, with two using experimental</p><p>methodology and one using empirical data to examine the effectiveness of the models. In the following I briefly summarize each of the papers.</p><p>Economists …