The Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout: How Conservatives Profit from Rainy Election Days
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Keywords
Turnout; Partisan effects; rain; Germany; municipalities; elections;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2015-04-11 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2015-04-11 (Positive Political Economics)
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