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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Kovenock, Dan | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Roberson, Brian | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2011-11-09T16:30:06Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2011-11-09T16:30:06Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2009 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51113 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote’ efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in the electoral process, we find that they have a meaningful impact on policy outcomes and are an important political influence activity for nonprofit advocacy organizations. In equilibrium, nonpartisan gotv efforts are more likely to arise in those segments of the electorate that are sufficiently small and disenfranchised (as measured by the ex ante voter abstention rate). Among those segments in which such efforts arise, the resulting gains are increasing in the level of disenfranchisement of the voters in the segment and decreasing in the segment’s size. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | WZB Berlin | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Discussion papers // WZB, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Schwerpunkt II Märkte und Politik, Abteilung Marktprozesse und Steuerung SP II 2009-07 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D72 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | C72 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | L30 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Get out the vote | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | redistributive politics | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | nonprofit advocacy organizations | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Colonel Blotto game | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Tullock game | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Non-partisan 'Get-out-the-vote' efforts and policy outcomes | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 614780926 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.repec | | RePEc:zbw:wzbmpg:SPII200907 | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des WZB Discussion Papers, Abteilung Marktprozesse und Steuerung, WZB
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