Are Voting Treatments Transformative? Expanding Upon and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence

Holbein, John B.; Rangel, Marcos A.; Moore, Raeal; Croft, Michelle

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“…My results are consistent with recent findings that suggest individuals are not transformed when they (are required to) vote (Holbein et al, Forthcoming). Aside from suggesting that compulsory voting’s ability to lessen representational inequalities is tenuous, my findings have implications for elected officials considering the adoption or abrogation of compulsory voting.…”

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“…My results are consistent with recent findings that external pressure to vote, or voting itself, is not transformative. Holbein et al (Forthcoming) find no evidence that young people in the United States who are exogenously made eligible to vote differ from others in terms of political interest, civic duty, political knowledge, social awareness, or ideological positions. They also find no evidence of transformative voting in a meta-analysis of recent empirical studies on the topic.…”

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Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Singh

2022

Comparative Political Studies

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Authors writing since the late 1800s have argued that the requirement to vote can transform citizens, especially by inducing political sophistication. This implies the criteria that compelled voters use to choose between candidates will differ from those who are not obligated to turn out. To test this, I amalgamate a conjoint experiment with a regression discontinuity design, exploiting age-based cutoffs in the application of compulsory voting. This allows me to causally identify the impact of compulsory voting on the attributes individuals take into account when choosing between candidates. While I recover compulsory voting’s upward impact on turnout, I find no evidence that compelled and voluntary voters differ in how they select candidates.

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Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Singh

2022

Comparative Political Studies

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“…For each of the three treatments discussed above, we assess whether effects are conditional on country, ideology, age, education, and income. In addition to the ability to explore heterogeneous treatment effects, this assessment allows us to examine whether our overall effects are systematic null effects, or whether they mask effects that vary across relevant subgroups (Holbein et al 2021).…”

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Examining the effect of cost information and framing on support for methane regulations in Europe

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Mahdavi

2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Methane abatement policies will play a considerable role in mitigating climate change given the high global-warming potential of methane compared to carbon dioxide, yet evidence on public attitudes and support for methane regulations is lacking. In partnership with the Clean Air Task Force, we develop an original nationally representative survey of four European countries (N = 5629) to show variation in general opinions on methane emissions and policy positions. Using a framing experiment, we test variation in these preferences as a function of policy impacts on cost, global climate change, local pollution, or energy security. We find largely null effects across the board: attitudes are remarkably durable to varying treatments, suggesting that support for methane regulations is not sensitive to cost information and policy framing. The results from this survey provide a much-needed baseline for public attitudes on methane abatement and will inform existing debates on what information is and is not effective in generating support for ambitious methane policy. 

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“…(viii) would forcing all citizens to vote-known as compulsory voting-improve voting results? (Jakee andSun, 2006, andHolbein et al, 2021), among many other topics.…”

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Modern Political Economy: A Brief History and Some Applications

Jakee

2021

SSRN Journal

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Modern political economy attempts to understand the political sphere using tools and approaches initially developed in economics. Over time, this subdiscipline has developed many of its own hybrid tools in analyzing politics. Non-economists often refer to the approach as "rational choice," a label that describes its fundamental precepts: rationality and choice among individual decision makers. It is also widely known as "public choice," owing to an early group of midcentury scholars searching for a moniker for their new journal, which did indeed become Public Choice, now in its 56 th year of publication. The rationale for this latter title aims at differentiating this new disciplinary field from private choice, the latter being the domain of most economic analysis.It is not unreasonable to think of this subdiscipline as the "economic theory of politics," as it is also sometimes called. Indeed, modern political economy has attracted adherents in both economics and political science, and has appealed to some sociologists (

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Are Voting Treatments Transformative? Expanding Upon and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence

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Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Does Compulsory Voting Affect How Voters Choose? A Test Using a Combined Conjoint and Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Examining the effect of cost information and framing on support for methane regulations in Europe

Modern Political Economy: A Brief History and Some Applications

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