The Effect of Information on Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
The Effect of Information on Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
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信息对选民投票率的影响：来自自然实验的证据
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.475821
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发表时间：
2004
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
D. Lassen
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作者：
D. Lassen
消息灵通的人会投票更多吗？最近的选民投票率理论强调被告知对投票倾向的积极影响，但内生信息获取的可能性使得估计因果效应变得困难。我使用哥本哈根分权公投的自然实验的独特数据，估计了被告知选民投票率的因果影响。15个区中有4个开展了试点项目，使试点城市区选民更了解权力下放的影响。基于调查数据的经验估计证实了被告知投票倾向的相当大的和统计上显著的因果影响。
Do better informed people vote more? Recent theories of voter turnout emphasize a positive effect of being informed on the propensity to vote, but the possibility of endogenous information acquisition makes estimation of causal effects difficult. I estimate the causal effects of being informed on voter turnout using unique data from a natural experiment Copenhagen referendum on decentralization. Four of fifteen districts carried out a pilot project, exogenously making pilot city district voters more informed about the effects of decentralization. Empirical estimates based on survey data confirm a sizeable and statistically significant causal effect of being informed on the propensity to vote.
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
P. S. Visser;J. Krosnick
通讯作者：
P. S. Visser;J. Krosnick