It's a Group Thing: How Voters go to the Polls Together
It's a Group Thing: How Voters go to the Polls Together
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这是一个群体事件：选民如何一起去投票站
DOI：
10.1007/s11109-018-9484-2
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Bhatti Y
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作者：
Bhatti Y
在欧洲议会中，丹麦的地方选举和大选中，有多名选民的家庭中有一半到四分之三的选民在一分钟内与另一个家庭成员一起投票。这一发现是利用覆盖超过 200 万丹麦选民的带有时间戳的选民小组的数据得出的，表明许多家庭一起前往投票站。使用丹麦、英国和其他一系列国家的调查数据重复了这一结果，表明一起投票是一种普遍现象，支持了投票作为一种社会行为的特征。我们的分析首次表明，获得潜在投票伙伴会增加投票率，而失去潜在投票伙伴则会降低投票率。
Across European Parliament, local and general elections in Denmark between half and three quarters of voters in households with multiple voters cast their vote within a minute of another household member. This finding, revealed using data from a time-stamped voter panel covering more than two million Danish voters, establishes that many families visit the polling station together. The result are replicated using survey data from Denmark, the UK and a range of other countries, indicating that voting together is a widespread phenomenon, supporting the characterization of voting as a social act. For the first time our analysis reveals that acquiring a potential voting partner increases turnout, whilst losing one decreases turnout.