Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences: Long-Run Evidence from the UK
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Keywords
voting; turnout; downstream effects; political preferences; habit; persistence; 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
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2021-05-03 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2021-05-03 (Positive Political Economics)
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