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Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence from Texas Liquor Referenda / Stephen Coate, Michael Conlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coate, Stephen.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8720.
- NBER working paper series no. w8720
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Voter Turnout
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.
- Summary:
- This paper uses data from Texas liquor referenda to explore a new approach to understanding voter turnout, inspired by the theoretical work of Harsanyi (1980) and Feddersen and Sandroni (2001). It presents a model based on this approach and structurally estimates it using the referendum data. It then compares the performance of the model with two alternative models of turnout. The results are encouraging: the structural estimation yields sensible parameter estimates and the model performs better than the two alternatives considered.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2002.
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