DOES MOTOR VOTER WORK - EVIDENCE FROM STATE-LEVEL DATA

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KNACK, S
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10.2307/2960193
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D0 [政治学、政治理论];
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0302 ; 030201 ;
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The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 mandates ''motor voter'' programs in all states prior to the 1996 presidential election. Using mate-level registration and turnout data over the 1976-1992 period, this study finds that motor voter programs already implemented in many states have significantly increased participation rates. A duration-based specification of motor voter is employed, to account for the fact that driver's license renewal cycles last up to six years or even more in some states. Dummy-variable specifications are shown to underestimate the eventual impact of motor voter. Models include state dummy variables to control for long-standing differences in participation rates across states that otherwise bias coefficient estimates for registration closing dare and other variables. In contrast to motor voter, other provisions required by the NVRA-including mail-in and agency-based registration, and limitations on the purging of voter rolls-show little evidence of effectiveness in the states where they have already been implemented.
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