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Policy-based abstention in Brazil's 2002 presidential election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-03)This paper implements a unified model of individual abstention and vote choice to analyze policy-based alienation and indifference in Brazil’s 2002 presidential election. The results indicate that both alienation and ... -
Electoral Context and Voter Confidence: How The Context of an Election Shapes Voter Confidence in the Process
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-04)A number of recent studies examine how confident voters are that their ballots are counted as intended in U.S. federal elections from 2000 to 2004. One consistent finding of these studies is that, relative to Democrats, ... -
Measuring the Effects of Voter Confidence on Political Participation: An Application to the 2006 Mexican Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-06-20)In this paper we study the causal effect of voter confidence on participation decisions in the 2006 Mexican Election. Previous research has shown that voter confidence was a relevant factor in explaining participation ...
