Turnout in Concurrent Elections: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments in Italy

Enrico Cantoni, Ludovica Gazze and Jerome Schafer
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Ludovica Gazze: University of Warwick and CAGE
Jerome Schafer: University of Munich

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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 lower-salience 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.

Keywords: turnout; concurrent elections; regression discontinuity design; Italy. JEL Classification: (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Journal Article: Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy (2021)
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