The amount of scholarly attention directed at resolving the question why people turn out to
cast a vote is vast. In a research field dominated by empirical studies–such as the one on …

The paradox between an individual's decisions to head to the polls and the absence of
strictly rational arguments for this action has intrigued–and troubled–many scholars. The …

We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both
environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in …

We estimate habit formation in voting—the effect of past on current turnout—by exploiting
transitory voting cost shocks. Using county-level data on US presidential elections from 1952 …

Fowler, Baker, and Dawes () recently showed in two independent studies of twins that voter
turnout has very high heritability. Here we investigate two specific genes that may contribute …

This article provides a new measure of voting costs by using Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) tools to calculate the distance between the residence and polling place for …

Die Erklärung sozialen Handelns ist eine Kernaufgabe der Sozialwissenschaften.
Ausgehend von den beiden Konzepten der Definition der Situation und der variablen …

The so-called “paradox of voting” is a major anomaly for rational choice theories of elections.
If voting is costly and citizens are rational, then in large electrorates the expected turnout …

This major new text by two leading authorities in the field provides a state-of-the-art
assessment of what we know about voting behaviour and the character, consequences and …

Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While
these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies--most famously …