Not exact matches
This
data - gathering machinery can be used to shape who we
vote for, or whether we
vote at all, or how we make
choices on big referendums, such as whether Britain leaves the European Union.
James Tilley and Geoff Evans (2013), «Ageing and generational effects on
vote choice: Combining cross-sectional and panel
data to estimate APC effects», Electoral Studies (forthcoming)
British Election Study
data released today (collected between February and March 2014) shows that 17 % of people intend to
vote for UKIP in the May European Parliament elections (23 % when counting only people giving a party
choice, excluding «don't know» responses).
These prior studies are based largely on non-experimental comparisons of survey responses of similar students in public and private schools, whereas our study is the first to examine
data on the actual
voting behavior of students who participated in a
choice lottery.