CHANGE IN ELECTION CALENDARS AND TURNOUT DECLINE

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Abstract
Richard Boyd has argued that the proliferation of elections across the calendar is one source contributing to the decline in turnout over the past two decades. Two such election calendar reforms, the adoption of the presidential primary and the separation of the election of the governor from the election of the president, were used to test the thesis. Cross-sectional, quasi-experimental, and multiple regression tests indicate no support for the Boyd thesis.

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