Voter turnout has puzzled political scientists ever since Anthony Downs postulated the
paradox of voting. Despite decades of research aiming to understand what drives citizens to …

This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the
changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which …

We apply a machine learning technique to characterize habit formation in two large panel
data sets with objective measures of 1) gym attendance (over 12 million observations) and …

Field experiments and regression discontinuity designs test whether voting is habit forming
by examining whether a random shock to turnout in one election affects participation 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 …

Empirical evidence suggests that e-voting has no measurable effects on turnout. However,
existing studies did (or could) not look at e-voting effects on the individual level. We innovate …

It is conventional to speak of voting as “habitual.” But what does this mean? In psychology,
habits are cognitive associations between repeated responses and stable features of the …

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

This paper examines the determinants of household car ownership, using Irish longitudinal
data for the period 1995–2001. This was a period of rapid economic and social change in …

This paper uses discontinuities imposed by voting-age restrictions to identify the effect of
past eligibility on subsequent participation decisions and partisan identification. It compares …