Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence from Texas Liquor Referenda

Stephen Coate () and Michael Edward Conlin ()

No 8720, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper uses data from Texas liquor referenda to explore a new approach to understanding voter turnout, inspired by the theoretical work of Harsanyi (1980) and Feddersen and Sandroni (2001). It presents a model based on this approach and structurally estimates it using the referendum data. It then compares the performance of the model with two alternative models of turnout. The results are encouraging: the structural estimation yields sensible parameter estimates and the model performs better than the two alternatives considered.

JEL-codes: D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-01
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