Objective The study investigates the relationship between perceived loneliness and individuals' attitude whether voting is a civic duty. With that, it first to shed light on mechanism linking behavior. Methods Two independent, cross-sectional, representative datasets from Germany (n = 1641) Netherlands 1431) are analyzed. Results regression results effect decomposition techniques show that asso...

This article examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in United States. We rely an exhaustive list terror attacks over period 1970–2016 and exploit inherent randomness success or failure to identify political impacts terrorism. first confirm that is plausibly random by showing it orthogonal potential confounders. then show average successful have no effect presidential non-presidenti...