Distance and Voting: Evidence from Danish Municipalities
Distance and Voting: Evidence from Danish Municipalities
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距离和投票：来自丹麦市政当局的证据
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9477.2011.00283.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Yosef Bhatti
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作者：
Yosef Bhatti
居住在远离指定投票站的地方可能会使投票比投票站就在拐角处更不方便。使用约230万潜在选民的横截面数据集，包括每个家庭与指定投票站之间的距离，发现距离对投票倾向有很大的影响。一个住在离投票站五公里的人有10%的投票倾向-点比一个人住在旁边的投票率的倾向较低。距离和投票率之间的关系被发现是近似对数。此外，距离的影响似乎取决于家庭中是否有汽车。最后一节讨论了结果的政策含义。
Living far from the assigned polling station possibly renders voting less convenient than if the polls are right around the corner. Using a cross-sectional dataset of about 2.3 million potential voters, including the distances between each household and the assigned polling station, a substantial impact of distance on the propensity to vote is found. An individual living five kilometers from the polling station has a ten percentage-point lower propensity to turnout than an individual living right next to it. The relationship between distance and turnout is found to be approximately logarithmic. Additionally, the impact of distance appears to be conditional on the availability of cars in the household. The policy implications of the results are discussed in the concluding section.