Replication data for: A Group Rule-Utilitarian Approach to Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence
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Project Citation:
Coate, Stephen, and Conlin, Michael. Replication data for: A Group Rule-Utilitarian Approach to Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116027V1
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This paper explores a group rule–utilitarian approach to understanding voter turnout, inspired by the theoretical work of John C. Harsanyi (1980) and Timothy J. Feddersen and Alvaro Sandroni (2002). It develops a model based on this approach and studies its performance in explaining turnout in Texas liquor referenda. The results are encouraging: the comparative static predictions of the model are broadly consistent with the data, and a structurally estimated version of the model yields reasonable coefficient estimates and fits the data well. The structurally estimated model also outperforms a simple expressive voting model.
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D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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