State-Dependent Effects on Voter Participation: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. House Elections

Panagiotis Th. Konstantinou (), Theodore Panagiotidis and Costas Roumanias ()
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Panagiotis Th. Konstantinou: Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Costas Roumanias: Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

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Abstract: In an simple model of voter participation, the effects of election margin and campaign expenditure are shown to be state-dependent – varying with low/high turnout. We empirically assess these implications for observed turnout, employing data from US House elections from 2000 to 2008 by means of quantile regression analysis. We document that the effects of expected election margin and campaign spending on turnout are state-dependent: the later is positive and decreasing, whereas the former is negative and U-shaped. Other determinants' influence on turnout (e.g. education, population density) is also shown to vary across the conditional distribution of turnout rate.

Keywords: Voter Turnout; Election Margin; Campaign Expenditure; Quantile Regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12
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