How to Increase Turnout in Low-Salience Elections
Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Concurrent Second-Order Elections on Political Participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6342015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | April Leininger (0000-0003-2491-9057, Hertie School), Arndt Leininger, Lukas Rudolph (0000-0001-8977-4480, LMU Klinikum), Steffen Zittlau (University of Mannheim) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 509-526 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Research and Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-8470 • E-ISSN: 2049-8489 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/psrm.2016.38 |
| OpenAlex | W2530968392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 47 |
Voter turnout in second-order elections is on a dramatic decline in many modern democracies. This article investigates how electoral participation can be substantially increased by holding multiple of these less important elections simultaneously. Leading to a relative decrease in voting costs, concurrent elections theoretically have economies of scale to the individual voter and thus should see turnout levels larger than those obtained in any stand-alone election. Leveraging as-if-random variation of local election timing in Germany, we estimate the causal effect of concurrent mayoral elections on European election turnout at around 10 percentage points. Exploiting variation in treatment intensity, we show that the magnitude of the concurrency effect is contingent upon district size and the competitiveness of the local race
Demographic economics · Economics · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salience (neuroscience · Turnout · Voter turnout · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Psychology
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Introduction
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
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| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |