Comparing absentee and precinct voters: Voting on direct legislation

Dubin, Jeffrey A.; Kalsow, Gretchen A.

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“…As an example of the latter approach,Dubin and Kalsow (1996), discuss ''patience'' in the context of whether individuals will vote on ballot propositions. In their analysis, the length of the ballot propositions tries an individual's patience; ''the longer the description of the proposition, the more impatient the voter becomes, and the less support the proposition receives'' (p. 407).…”

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“…In their analysis, the length of the ballot propositions tries an individual's patience; ''the longer the description of the proposition, the more impatient the voter becomes, and the less support the proposition receives'' (p. 407). We conceptualize patience as an individual-level disposition, whereasDubin and Kalsow (1996) view (im-) patience as induced by the political environment, the length of ballot propositions. 3 ''A serious limitation of self-report information is that each person has only a limited awareness of his or her moods, motives, and bases for behavior, and it is not obvious that only conscious intentions and moods make up the main basis for variation(Wilson, Hull, & John 1981)'', cited inKagan (1988, p. 617).…”

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Patience as a Political Virtue: Delayed Gratification and Turnout

2006

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A number of scholars have demonstrated that voter turnout is influenced by the costs of processing information and going to the polls, and the policy benefits associated with the outcome of the election. However, no one has yet noted that the costs of voting are paid on or before Election Day, while policy benefits may not materialize until several days, months, or even years later. Since the costs of voting must be borne before the benefits are realized, people who are more patient should be more willing to vote. We use a ''choice game'' from experimental economics to estimate individual discount factors which are used to measure patience. We then show that patience significantly increases voter turnout.

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Patience as a Political Virtue: Delayed Gratification and Turnout

2006

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“…Some of the factors that affect voters' preferences for using different voting methods are likely to also affect their candidate preferences. For instance, previous research has generally shown that Election Day voters are younger, less educated, and less partisan-all factors that affect vote choice (Patterson and Caldeira 1985;Dubin and Kalsow 1996;Stein 1998;Baretto et al 2006;Stein et al 2004, though see Neeley and Richardson 2001 for an alternate account). This creates what social scientists often refer to as an ''identification problem''-we cannot determine whether observed differences in the vote choices made by VBM and polling place voters represent the effect of VBM or instead the preferences of those who choose to use the different voting methods.…”

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Convenience Voting Can Affect Election Outcomes

Meredith

Malhotra

2011

Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy

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Forms of convenience voting, including voting-by-mail (VBM), provide citizens the opportunity to cast ballots without being exposed to the information revealed in the final weeks leading up to Election Day. This creates the possibility that informational differences will cause VBM and polling place voters to vote differently. We test this hypothesis by looking at whether the increased use of VBM at the precinct-level relates to candidates' vote shares in the 2008 California presidential primary. An election administration policy in California, in which all voters are assigned to VBM based on an arbitrary threshold of the number of registered voters, is exploited to overcome the identification problem caused by the selfselection of voters into VBM. We show that the use of VBM affects the relative performance of candidates remaining in the race and increases the probability of selecting withdrawn candidates. Our findings have implications both for election administration policy and for the study of campaign effects in American elections. Election officials should consider waiting until closer to Election Day to send out mail ballots, or instruct voters to wait until they are ready to make a decision before voting.

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“…This unexpected behaviour was first detected by Dubin and Kaslow amongst absentee voters in California ballot propositions. 19 The same characteristic is evident in these Texas counties when partisan and nonpartisan local elections coincide. Early voters roll off less than election-day voters in every partisan contest.…”

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Early Voting and Informed Voters in America

McSweeney

2010

Parliamentary Affairs

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Comparing absentee and precinct voters: Voting on direct legislation

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Patience as a Political Virtue: Delayed Gratification and Turnout

Patience as a Political Virtue: Delayed Gratification and Turnout

Convenience Voting Can Affect Election Outcomes

Early Voting and Informed Voters in America

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