A staff member registers information for voters at a voter registration center in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, on Oct. 22, 2024. The revision of the electoral list in Cote d'Ivoire started on Oct. 19 in preparation for next year's presidential election. The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI)...
Voter turnout (%) 0.436 0.437 0.435 0.124 [0.249] Legislature size (seats) 9.607 8.582 8.749 -7.352 [4.915] Panel B – Population statistics Population size (inhabitants) 1,526.643 477.768 503.616 22.553 [55.547] Panel C – Wage schedules Mayor's salary (CZK) 29,428.420 29,290.890 30,40...
This article addresses how the effectiveness of voter mobilization varies by election salience, in a generally high-salience political context. We find the two experiments to be more effective in low/middle salience elections, with turnout around 60 percent, than in high salience elections with ...
Making election day a national holiday to help increase voter turnout? Make a list and offer support for each reform. If you would not change the voting process, make a list of reforms and why you would not choose to enact them.
T.G. in San Francisco, CA, asks:I've been wondering if there is a disadvantage for Democrats in calling their party the "Democratic Party," especially given the current political climate. When some folks read that various Republican efforts (such as voter suppression) are "anti-democratic,"...
Future research should investigate the effectiveness of digital voter education tools and the broader applicability of the SVE model across different regions. The study contributes to the discourse on electoral behaviour, offering insights into improving democratic governance through strategic voter education ...
Contrary to expectations, the results indicate null findings: the adoption of term limits has neither increased turnout, nor depressed the casting of blank and spoiled ballots (alternative indicators of voter engagement under compulsory voting). This is puzzling given that the refor...
These parties often feature an energized activist group that is optimistic about the party's probability of winning 鈥 contradicting the standard view. We build and analyze a game-theoretic model of electoral competition that simultaneously explains the prevalence of extreme platforms and activists' ...
In the long term, there was no substantial inter-electoral change in the clustering of voter turnout in the different municipalities, except for an overall significant decline in the homogeneity of the clusters with low or high electoral turnout. Second, while there was some positive spatial ...