Back in Universe A, they moved American election days to fall on a Sunday. Had a big Prince/Bowie concert to celebrate it
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Replying to @Pinboard
You know the literature is very mixed on weekend/holiday elections
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0010414006288970 … Flickinger & Studlar (2004) - A study of European parliamentary election turnout. Didn't find significance...
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9248.00400/full … Siaroff & Merer (2002) looked at national parliamentary turnout in Europe. Also no significance...pic.twitter.com/bh2Zy0daI5
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On the other hand, you have Mattila (2003) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379401000543 … which finds a 10% increase in turnout (60 -> 66%, not 60 -> 70%)pic.twitter.com/G66UW48Ltv
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thanks for these citations! Although I would love to see data from something more like the US electoral system (2-party elections)
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