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Turnout in Concurrent Elections : Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments in Italy ∗
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cantoni, Enrico |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | We study the turnout effect of different types of concurrent elections using administrative and survey data from Italy. Exploiting different voting ages for the two Houses of Parliament in a voter-level Regression Discontinuity Design, we find no effect of Senate voting eligibility on turnout or information acquisition. By contrast, city-level Differences-in-Differences estimates show that concurrent high-salience municipal elections increase turnout in lowersalience provincial and European elections. Our findings suggest that turnout depends on overall electoral salience, which is unaffected at the individual level by Senate voting eligibility but changes at the city level when different types of elections are held concurrently. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://home.uchicago.edu/~lgazze/webfiles/SenateRD_CantoniGazze.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
