Replication data for: How to increase turnout in low-salience elections. Quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of concurrent second-order elections on political participation
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| Title: | Replication data for: How to increase turnout in low-salience elections. Quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of concurrent second-order elections on political participation |
| Date: | 2 September 2016 |
| Creator: | Leininger, Arndt ; Rudolph, Lukas ; Zittlau, Steffen |
| Divisions: | Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences- CDSS (Social Sciences) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > MZES |
| DDC Classification: |
320 Political science |
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| Abstract: | Voter turnout in second-order elections is on a dramatic decline in many modern democracies. This article investigates how electoral participation can be substantially increased by holding multiple of these less important elections concurrently. Leading to a relative decrease in voting costs, concurrent elections theoretically have economies of scale to the individual voter and thus should see turnout levels larger than those obtained in any stand-alone election. Leveraging as-if-random variation of local election timing in Germany, we estimate the causal effect of concurrent mayoral elections on European Election turnout at around ten percentage points. Exploiting variation in treatment intensity, we show that the magnitude of the concurrency effect is contingent upon district size and the competitiveness of the local race. (English) |
| External Identifier for Data: | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TJTZT2 |
| URL: | https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/710/ |
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| Access (Controlled): | Only Metadata |
| License (Controlled): | Creative Commons: CC0 | Universal 1.0 (recommended) |
| Related Publication(s) in MADOC: | Leininger, Arndt und Rudolph, Lukas und Zittlau, Steffen (2018), How to increase turnout in low-salience elections: Quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of concurrent second-order elections on political participation |
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| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2026 15:42 |
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| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2026 15:42 |
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