What is it about?
This paper looks at what happened in Virginia after it added partisan labels to its ballots in 2000.
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Why is it important?
This paper shows that party labels increase participation in elections by reducing roll-off. It also shows that voters use their national partisan identification more with the application of labels.
Perspectives
Nonpartisan elections are prevalent in the United States, but it is hard to determine how the affect voter behavior (e.g. is it the ballot or the campaigns?) This paper has a nice natural experiment to show how ballot labels themselves change voter participation and partisan behavior in elections.
Alex Garlick
College of New Jersey
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This page is a summary of: “The Letter after Your Name”, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, April 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1532440015573015.
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