NDLI: Mobilization, cost of voting and turnout: a natural randomized experiment with double elections

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Fauvelle Aymar, Christine François, Abel
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This article uses a peculiarity of French local elections to test the influence of mobilization factors and the cost of voting on electoral turnout. At local elections, half of the constituencies have to vote in a single election (regional elections), whereas the other half cast two ballots (a departmental election and a regional election). Since these two categories of constituencies are distributed randomly, this context provides the conditions of a natural randomized experiment. Comparison of the turnout rates in both types of constituencies allows us to assess in a particularly robust way the significant impacts of mobilization activities and of the cost of voting on turnout in the context of double ballots. We estimate the average impact of an additional election at the national level on turnout to be around four percentage points, but this impact is much higher at the local level.
Starting Page	183
Ending Page	199
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00485829
Journal	Public Choice
Volume Number	162
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	15737101
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-12-05
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Electoral turnout Electoral mobilization Cost of voting Natural experiment Random experiment Public Finance & Economics Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Economics and Econometrics

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