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| Tekijä: | Funk, P. |
| Otsikko: | Social incentives and voter turnout: evidence from the Swiss mail ballot system |
| Lehti: | Journal of the European Economic Association
2010 : SEP, VOL. 8:5, p. 1077-1103 |
| Asiasana: | voting politics behavioural science social psychology Switzerland |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This paper utilizes a natural experiment to show the effect of social pressure on voting behavior. The main hypothesis is that social pressure creates incentives to vote in order to being seen at the voting act. This incentive is especially high in small and close-knit communities. The effect of postal voting is empirically analyzed on voter participation in Switzerland. Optional postal voting decreased the voting costs, but also removed the social pressure to vote. Despite of the large reduction in voting costs, there was little effect on aggregate turnout was. Also, voter participation was more negatively affected in the smaller communities. This supports the view that social incentives played a role for certain people's voting behavior. |
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