Election-day Registration: The Second Wave

Knack, Stephen

doi:10.1177/10.1177_1532673x01029001005

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“…Our account of patience as a political virtue contributes to the abundant literature that has sought to explain why citizens turn out to vote and participate in other activities (Campbell, Converse, Miller, & Stokes, 1960;Rosenstone & Hansen, 1993;Verba, Schlozman, & Brady, 1995;Wolfinger & Rosenstone, 1980). Several empirical studies suggest 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 (Franklin & Grier, 1997;Hansen, Palfrey, & Rosenthal, 1987;Highton, 1997;Jackson, 2000;Kaempfer & Lowenberg, 1993;Knack 1997Knack , 2001Nagler, 1991). However, none of these studies considers the fact that the costs and benefits of turning out to vote are borne at different times.…”

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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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“…3 There are, of course, exceptions. Like Lott's study cited in the text, there are other aggregate-level studies of voter participation rates, for example, Knack's (2001) study of the effect of the implementation of election-day voter registration on turnout rates across states. Another prominent exception is the study by Verba, Schlozman and Brady (1995), as they collected their own survey data to study civic engagement and participation.…”

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The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout

2008

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Since the passage of the "Help America Vote Act" in 2002, nearly half of the states have adopted a variety of new identification requirements for voter registration and participation by the 2006 general election. There has been little analysis of whether these requirements reduce voter participation, especially among certain classes of voters. In this paper we document the effect of voter identification requirements on registered voters as they were imposed in states in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, and in the 2002 and 2006 midterm elections. Looking first at trends in the aggregate data, we find no evidence that voter identification requirements reduce participation. Using individual-level data from the Current Population Survey across these elections, however, we find that the strictest forms of voter identification requirements -combination requirements of presenting an identification card and positively matching one's signature with a signature either on file or on the identification card, as well as requirements to show picture identification -have a negative impact on the participation of registered voters relative to the weakest requirement, stating one's name. We also find evidence that the stricter voter identification requirements depress turnout to a greater extent for less educated and lower income populations, but no racial differences.

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“…Fenster (1994) using state-level data estimated that the first wave of EDR in the 1970s resulted in 4.73% point difference in election turnout. Knack (2001) on the base of state-level data found that in presidential elections the new wave of EDR programs adopted in the early 1990s was associated with a turnout increase of 2.92% points. Hence, the impact tends to decline over time, which is also supported by more detailed analysis of trends in our data.…”

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“…Most US states (but not all) require voters to register in advance which may act as an impediment to voting (and hence reduce voter turnout). To improve comparability we have, following previous research on the subject (Rosenstone and Wolfinger, 1978;Fenster, 1994;Brians and Grofman, 2001;Knack, 2001), estimated the likely effect on voter turnout of such regulations and adjusted the data accordingly. See Appendix A.1 for details on the method used for US voter turnout adjustment.…”

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Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations

Fagerberg

Feldman

Srholec

2013

Journal of Economic Geography

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This article analyzes factors shaping technological capabilities in USA and European countries, and shows that the differences between the two continents in this respect are much smaller than commonly assumed. The analysis demonstrates a tendency toward convergence in technological capabilities for the sample as a whole between 1998 and 2008. The results indicate that social capabilities, such as well-developed public knowledge infrastructure, an egalitarian distribution of income, a participatory democracy and prevalence of public safety condition the growth of technological capabilities. Possible effects of other factors, such as agglomeration, urbanization, industrial specialization, migration and knowledge spillovers are also considered.

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Election-day Registration: The Second Wave

Cited by 28 publications

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Patience as a Political Virtue: Delayed Gratification and Turnout

Patience as a Political Virtue: Delayed Gratification and Turnout

The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout

Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations

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