Compulsory Voting, Voter Turnout and Asymmetrical Habit-formation
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- Gäbler, Stefanie & Potrafke, Niklas & Rösel, Felix, 2017. "Compulsory Voting, Voter Turnout and Asymmetrical Habit-formation," VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking 168074, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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compulsory voting; voter turnout; party vote shares; difference-in-discontinuity design; habit-formation; Austria;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- P10 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2018-01-08 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2018-01-08 (Positive Political Economics)
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