Voter turnout
Subtitle: theory and evidence from Texas liquor referenda
By: Stephen Coate, Michael Conlin.
Contributors: Conlin, Michael.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper  8720; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no.  8720.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Referendum -- Texas.
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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