Paper 2013:14 Voter Turnout and the Size of Government Linuz Aggeborn Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies Working paper 2013:14 Department of Economics November 2013 Uppsala University P.O. Box 513 SE-751 20 Uppsala Sweden Fax: +46 18 471 14 78 Voter Turnout and the Size of Government Linuz Aggeborn Papers in the Working Paper Series are published on internet in PDF formats. Download from http://ucfs.nek.uu.se/ Voter Turnout and the Size of Government
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numbers of factors that affect voter turnout. There are voters who are only interested in the presidential; however‚ there are voters who are interested in all elections. A simple factor of a low turnout can be as simple as the lack of interest of voters. One’s age‚ gender‚ and transportation to the polls is a factor. The weather plays a factor in the turnout of an election; a bright sunny day will have a higher turnout while a rainy‚ cold‚ and snowy day has lower turnouts. Socioeconomic status‚ a
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Although voter turnout among Hispanics is low for many reasons there are plenty of solutions that can be implemented in order to motivate Hispanics to get out there and cast their opinion in the ballot‚ from local elections to state elections. While all solutions require their willingness to get out there‚ it also requires a lot of help from volunteers‚ politicians‚ and policy makers. Eligibility stands in the way of many and unfortunately that has no solution‚ as it is only part of nature. However
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1 Effects of Advertising on Voter Turnout Brian A. Goodrich Three Rivers College 2 Effects of Advertising on Voter turnout The idea of a negative advertisement towards a political opponent became commonplace in the election of 2000‚ but most notably and recent‚ the 2012 election. Final tallies find more than 3 million ads of all kinds during this election with a price tag of over 2 billion dollars. A 2013 research paper published in The Forum by Erika Franklin Fowler of Wesleyan
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process works. We have all heard of the electoral college but few of us fully understand it or its impact on our democratic process. This election process divides our nation into two parties and directly impacts everything from campaigning to voter turnout and can even affect the outcome of the election altogether. How The Electoral College Came To Be The process by which we elect our executive branch has been the same since the Constitution was ratified in 1787. Article II‚ Section I of the
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Abstract While political experts have long claimed that bad weather lowers voter turnout‚ the impact of weather on U.S. election outcomes remains unclear. The most rigorous work to date found that precipitation benefits Republicans and suggested that Florida rains influenced the outcome of the 2000 presidential election (Gomez et al.‚ 2007)‚ but a recent analysis finding that precipitation only lowers turnout in uncompetitive election states calls this claim into question (Fraga & Hersh‚ 2010).
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you a registered voter? You might expect a high rate of voting in the United States. A lot of people women‚ African Americans‚ and the poor fought for the right to vote; certainly their descendents would want to exercise their right to vote. I want to discuss with you today the importance of voting. There are three important aspects of voting. The first aspect is the group of people that fail to vote‚ the second is why there is such a low turnout‚ and finally is the voters ’ attitude. Voting
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Increase Voter Turnout? Today‚ only about half of registered voters in America actually vote; a sad statistic of an uninformed‚ unconcerned population. Social media networks such as Facebook have proven to not only inform voters but to actually improve voter turnout‚ by using a get-out-the-vote message. Facebook is utilized throughout the year as a channel to influence its users‚ but Political campaigns have recently started taking advantage of this tool to reach out to potential voters in hopes
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Voter Turnout in Federal Elections In the past half of the twentieth century‚ researchers observed a decline in the voter turnout in federal elections. It has also been observed that the voter turnout has been higher in presidential elections than in midterm elections. The main factors of the declines are the citizens’ negative public attitudes and the widespread political "apathy". On the other hand‚ the difference between presidential and midterm election voter turnout was caused by what I call
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Voters have described the selection of Trump and Clinton for presidency similar to choosing the unlikeable (Clinton) versus the unthinkable (Trump) (Black‚ 2016). This is due to their different personalities and ideologies that are atypical to the qualities of a traditional president. According to Ohio State University psychologists who created a test of political language‚ the reason why Trump and Clinton appeal to different audiences are because of the sheer contrast of their high and low intensity
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