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Turnout in concurrent elections : evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy
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Cantoni, Enrico, Gazze, Ludovica and Schafer, Jerome (2021) Turnout in concurrent elections : evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy. European Journal of Political Economy, 70 . 102035. doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102035 ISSN 0176-2680.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102035
Abstract
We study the effects of different types of concurrent elections using individual-level administrative and survey data from Italy. Exploiting different voting ages for the two Houses of Parliament in a voter-level Regression Discontinuity Design, we find no effect of Senate voting eligibility on voter turnout or information acquisition. We also estimate city-level Differences-in-Differences showing that concurrent high-salience municipal elections increase turnout in lower-salience provincial and European elections, but not vice-versa. These concurrency effects are concentrated in municipalities in the South of Italy, possibly due to weaker political parties and lower levels of social capital.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Political Economy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0176-2680 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 70 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 102035 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102035 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 April 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 May 2023 | ||||||||
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