Undergraduate Honors Thesis
Voter Identification Laws and Their Effects on Voter Turnout 公开 Deposited
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/hm50ts30w
- Abstract
- Voter identification (voter ID) requirements have become a salient political issue recently as more states have moved to implement increasingly strict voter ID requirements. I conjecture that, especially due to the politicized debate surrounding voter ID, conservatives rationally propose the laws to produce a negative effect on poor and minority turnout. I empirically evaluate these claims surrounding voter ID laws. Specifically, I examine the impact of voter ID laws on overall turnout and on racial and socioeconomic gaps in turnout. I find no results when examining the effect of voter ID on levels of turnout in states or their racial gaps in turnout. I then look at individual level data, and similarly find no effect for voter ID laws on any important variable. Voter ID effects, I argue, have been overstated. Estimates proposed by other authors sit far outside the confidence intervals of my models.
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- Date Awarded
- 2016-01-01
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- 最新修改
- 2019-12-02
- Resource Type
- 权利声明
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voterIdentificationLawsAndTheirEffectsOnVoterTurnout.pdf | 2019-12-02 | 公开 | 下载 |