The impact of legal constraints on voter registration, turnout, and the composition of the American electorate

Mitchell, Glenn E.; Wlezien, Christopher

doi:10.1007/bf01498813

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“…Studies that examine the impact of electoral laws on turnout at the individual level have relied on the Voter Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS) (see, e.g., Oliver, 1996;Mitchell & Wlezien, 1995;Wolfinger & Rosenstone, 1980). The large number of cases sampled from every state allows for sufficient variation in electoral arrangements such as registration requirements and large samples of subgroups of voters such as absentee voters.…”

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Absentee Voting, Mobilization, and Participation

Karp

Banducci

2001

American Politics Research

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Liberal absentee laws are designed to make voting easier, which should stimulate turnout. Using data from the National Election Studies, we test the hypothesis that persons who choose to vote early are already highly motivated to participate in the political process. We find support for this hypothesis, which raises questions about the extent to which liberal absentee laws can expand the electorate. Furthermore, contrary to past research, we see the Republican advantage in absentee voting as a result of self-selection rather than party mobilization.

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Absentee Voting, Mobilization, and Participation

Karp

Banducci

2001

American Politics Research

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“…Teixeira (1992), and Mitchell and Wlezian (1995) using survey data, produce estimates ranging from 3 to 6 percentage points. vi None of these studies account for the fact that EDR could not have had any effect on one third of Minnesota and Wisconsin residents, who were not required to register at all before the advent of EDR.…”

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Election-day Registration: The Second Wave

Knack

2001

am polit res

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“…1 The debate surrounding who is most likely to benefit from relaxed registration laws has concentrated on education as the characteristic of interest. 2 Most of the early studies (Highton, 1997;Mitchell & Wlezien, 1995;Nagler, 1994;Teixeira, 1992;Wolfinger & Rosenstone, 1980) suggest that EDR leads to the largest turnout gains among those with the lowest levels of education. Nagler (1991) challenges Wolfinger and Rosenstone's results, but his own 1994 article revises his original claims; and though he argues that the mechanism differs, Nagler (1994) arrives at the same substantive conclusion as Wolfinger and Rosenstone (1980).…”

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An Alternative Approach to Estimating Who is Most Likely to Respond to Changes in Registration Laws

Hanmer

2007

Polit Behav

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Scholars often seek to understand which individuals are most responsive to the change in some treatment. Such work inevitably faces issues of identification. When the dependent variable is binary, the assumption that the largest effect occurs where p = 0.5 is also encountered. I apply Manski's [(1995). Identification problems in the social sciences. Cambridge: Harvard University Press] non-parametric Bounds approach, which relaxes the functional form and distributional assumptions found in traditional models, in an attempt to resolve the long standing debate on which types of individuals are most affected by changes in registration laws. Under the standard assumption that treats the selection of registration laws as exogenous, the results revise the current understanding. By exploring the power of various behavioral assumptions, new insights into the study of policy changes emerge, calling into question some of the assumptions that are standard in the literature.

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The impact of legal constraints on voter registration, turnout, and the composition of the American electorate

Cited by 97 publications

References 35 publications

Absentee Voting, Mobilization, and Participation

Absentee Voting, Mobilization, and Participation

Election-day Registration: The Second Wave

An Alternative Approach to Estimating Who is Most Likely to Respond to Changes in Registration Laws

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