How Does a Relative Economy Affect Voter Turnout?

Keep it Clean? How Negative Campaigns Affect Voter Turnout

This study examines the effects of negative political campaigns on voter turnout over the last 10 years. Voter turnout in the United States is extremely low in comparison to other advanced industrialized nations, and the negativity that surrounds our elections may be the key to understanding why. The study is also a response to recent scholarship with conflicting conclusions on how the tone of ...

Does canvassing increase voter turnout? A field experiment.

This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment involving registered voters in the city of New Haven. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were delivered through personal canvassing shortly before the November 1998 election. We find that personal canvassing increased voter turnout by approximately 6. The effect of personal contact seems to be slightly smaller for voters registe...

Does Nota Affect Voter Turnout? Evidence from State Legislative Elections in India

How Black Candidates Affect Voter

Both Black and White voter turnout increases 2-3 percentage points with each Black Democrat on the ballot. Given the groups' representations in the population, the White response is numerically greater. Whites of both parties are less likely to vote for their parties' candidate when s/he is Black. The turnout findings are not explained away by voter, election, or politician characteristics. How...

Television and Voter Turnout

I use variation across markets in the timing of television’s introduction to identify its impact on voter turnout. The estimated e¤ect is signi…cantly negative, accounting for between a quarter and a half of the total decline in turnout since the 1950s. It is robust to a range of controls and alternative speci…cations, and interacts intuitively with county characteristics. I argue that substitu...