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Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout

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ID3215146
AutoresBenny Geys (0000-0003-4524-1820, BI Norwegian Business School, autor de correspondencia), Rune J Sørensen (0000-0003-0375-7677, BI Norwegian Business School, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen116
Número1
Páginas367-373
Fecha de publicación2022-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s000305542100099x
OpenAlexW3197995090
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas26

Does working in the public rather than the private sector have a causal effect on electoral participation? Extant evidence using cross-sectional survey data remains unpersuasive due to data limitations and concerns posed by preference-based job selection. We address these challenges using population-wide individual-level register data on voter turnout covering four Norwegian local and national elections between 2013 and 2019. We identify causal effects by tracking the same individuals over time during (a) shifts between private- and public-sector employment, (b) relocations between municipalities, and (c) shifts into retirement. We find that local public-sector employees display 1-3 percentage points higher voter turnout compared with private-sector employees. These effects arise particularly when working in their residential municipality, but they largely dissipate upon retirement

Current Population Survey · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Extant taxon · Labour economics · Norwegian · Political science · Politics · Population · Preference · Private sector · Public sector · Sociology · Survey data collection · Turnout · Voter turnout · Voting · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Social Capital and Networks · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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Intervalo de citas2022 - 2026 (5)
Velocidad de citacióncurrent
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