We exploit the act of the conservative Greek government (2004-2009) to fiddle the books as a natural experiment in order to document a causal link between government spending and electoral fragmentati
The respondents were first asked whether they had already voted in advance in the 2007 Parliamentary elections. If they had, they were asked which party's candidate they had voted for; if they had not
How does the degree to which European citizens see themselves represented by political parties relate to their willingness to participate in an election? We argue that the closer citizens are to the p
Abstract of associated article: We exploit a voting reform in France to estimate the causal effect of exit poll information on turnout and bandwagon voting. Before the change in legislation, individua
We examine whether electoral preferences depend on a community's population size, studying post-WWII Baden-Württemberg in Southwest Germany. Our identification strategy exploits the fact that the Fren
