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work_sen7ep6njvdd5mnahgc3b36ucu	Roland Hodler	The Effects of Voting Costs on the Democratic Process and Public Finances	2015	43	.pdf	application/pdf	12899	1608	71	Voting Costs on the Democratic Process and Public Finances, WWZ Discussion Paper, No. 2012/02, University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel Increasing the attractiveness of voting is often seen as a remedy for unequal participation and the influence of special-interest groups on public policy. In this model citizens with good education/high incomes are more likely to take informed decisions when voting, and they are also more likely to participate in the election. effect of lower voting costs on public good provision or, more generally, on expenditures Other recent contributions building on the aforementioned models provide a microfoundation for the effect of political advertisement on voting decisions of imperfectly informed voters. Our dependent variables are voter turnout, participants' average years of education, participants' average household income, participants' average ballot-specific knowledge, as well income, and average knowledge on propositions of voting participants for all states and	./cache/work_sen7ep6njvdd5mnahgc3b36ucu.pdf	./txt/work_sen7ep6njvdd5mnahgc3b36ucu.txt