Is Voting Really Habit-Forming and Transformative? Long-Run Effects of Earlier Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement from the UK
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Keywords
Habit formation; transformative voting hypothesis; voter turnout; political involvement; regression discontinuity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2021-09-20 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EUR-2021-09-20 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-ISF-2021-09-20 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-POL-2021-09-20 (Positive Political Economics)
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