Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy

Cantoni, Enrico; Gazze, Ludovica und Schafer, Jerome (2021): Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy. In: European Journal of Political Economy, Bd. 70, 102035

Abstract

We study the effects of different types of concurrent elections using individual-level administrative and survey data from Italy. Exploiting different voting ages for the two Houses of Parliament in a voter-level Regression Discontinuity Design, we find no effect of Senate voting eligibility on voter turnout or information acquisition. We also estimate city-level Differences-in-Differences showing that concurrent high-salience municipal elections increase turnout in lowersalience provincial and European elections, but not vice-versa. These concurrency effects are concentrated in municipalities in the South of Italy, possibly due to weaker political parties and lower levels of social capital.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Sozialwissenschaften > Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politik
• ISSN: 0176-2680
• Sprache: Englisch