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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Explanations of Turnout -- 3 Restricting Access to the Ballot Box: The Impact of Registration Laws on Turnout -- 4 Placing the United States in Context: A Comparative Look at Electoral Systems -- 5 Winner-Take-All Elections, Part I: The Electoral College: Strategy, Mobilization, and Turnout -- 6 Winner-Take-All Elections, Part II: Competition, Spending, and Turnout in U. S. House Elections -- 7 The Separation of Powers: Divided Government, Responsiveness, Accountability, and Turnout -- 8 Conclusion: The Future of Electoral Reform in the United States -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Why Voter Mobilization Matters -- Evidence versus Received Wisdom -- Door-to-Door Canvassing -- Leaflets and Signage -- Direct Mail -- Commercial Phone Banks, Volunteer Phone Banks, and Robocalls -- Electronic Mail, Social Media, and Text Messaging -- Using Events to Draw Voters to the Polls -- Using Mass Media to Mobilize Voters -- Voter Registration and Voter Turnout -- Strategies for Effective Messaging -- What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Next -- Appendix A: Meta-Analysis of Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments -- Appendix B: Meta-Analysis of Direct Mail Experiments -- Appendix C: Meta-Analysis of Phone-Call Experiments -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

"This paper uses data from Texas liquor referenda to explore a new approach to understanding voter turnout, inspired by the theoretical work of Harsanyi (1980) and Feddersen and Sandroni (2001). It presents a model based on this approach and structurally estimates it using the referendum data. It then compares the performance of the model with two alternative models of turnout. The results are encouraging: the structural estimation yields sensible parameter estimates and the model performs better than the two alternatives considered"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Institutions are common predictors of voter turnout. Most research in this field focuses on cross-country comparisons of voting systems, like the impact of compulsory voting or registration systems. Fewer efforts have been devoted to understand the role of local institutions and their impact on political participation. Especially the impact of divided competences in relation to public good provision and its impact on voter turnout has been widely ignored. In the present paper, we analyze the effects of different institutional settings for inter-municipal cooperation on voter turnout. We use data from local elections in Germany, held in 2003 and 2004. Overall, we analyze aggregate voter turnout of 1661 municipalities and find strong evidence for our hypothesis that local institutional settings are influential in this context. Further, our results indicate that the better competences correspond to the spatial dimension of local public goods, the higher should be the voter turnout. -- Voter turnout ; local institutions ; inter-municipal cooperation