caa a22 4500 606168257 CHVBK 20210128100706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-014-0212-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-014-0212-0 Mobilization, cost of voting and turnout: a natural randomized experiment with double elections [Elektronische Daten] [Christine Fauvelle-Aymar, Abel François] This article uses a peculiarity of French local elections to test the influence of mobilization factors and the cost of voting on electoral turnout. At local elections, half of the constituencies have to vote in a single election (regional elections), whereas the other half cast two ballots (a departmental election and a regional election). Since these two categories of constituencies are distributed randomly, this context provides the conditions of a natural randomized experiment. Comparison of the turnout rates in both types of constituencies allows us to assess in a particularly robust way the significant impacts of mobilization activities and of the cost of voting on turnout in the context of double ballots. We estimate the average impact of an additional election at the national level on turnout to be around four percentage points, but this impact is much higher at the local level. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Electoral turnout nationallicence Electoral mobilization nationallicence Cost of voting nationallicence Natural experiment nationallicence Random experiment nationallicence Fauvelle-Aymar Christine CITERES - UMR 7324, University of Tours, Tours, France aut François Abel EM Strasbourg Business School, Strasbourg University (LARGE), Strasbourg, France aut Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 162/1-2(2015-01-01), 183-199 0048-5829 162:1-2<183 2015 162 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0212-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0212-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fauvelle-Aymar Christine CITERES - UMR 7324, University of Tours, Tours, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- François Abel EM Strasbourg Business School, Strasbourg University (LARGE), Strasbourg, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 162/1-2(2015-01-01), 183-199 0048-5829 162:1-2<183 2015 162 11127