Electronic voting is done by recording election data centrally and presenting it into fast digital information. E-voting an internet technology, which aims to improve the performance of process, expected be a breakthrough in technological development that helps human work. Security constraints e-voting include distribution voting, for example voters who distribute rights, are illegitimate can a...

One notable difference between early empirical legal scholarship and the more recent sophisticated contributions to the literature is scholars’ goal of identifying cause and effect relationships. Professors Cox and Miles’s recent study of judicial decisionmaking provides a terrific example of this new-generation work. The authors investigate whether personal attributes such as ideology, race, o...

People are regularly asked to report on their likelihoods of carrying out consequential future behaviors, including complying with medical advice, completing educational assignments, and voting in upcoming elections. Despite these stated self-predictions being notoriously unreliable, they are used to inform many strategic decisions. We report two studies examining stated self-prediction about w...

ABSTRACT Why hasn’t Uruguay enfranchised emigrants yet? This study examines an underresearched case of nonenfranchisement and engages with debates on external voting, diaspora politics, citizenship beyond borders. Building qualitative participatory methods, the analysis unveils obstacles to franchise reform despite significant progress from 2004 2019. Although voting was not enacted legally, em...

What is the impact on voting behavior of strengthening property rights over agricultural land? To answer this question, we use the 14 year nationwide rollout of Mexico’s land certification program (Procede) and match affected communities (ejidos) before and after the change in property rights with voting outcomes in corresponding electoral sections across six federal election cycles. We find th...

This paper presents details of a web-based, database-oriented ‘‘electronic voting service’’. Rapid world-wide growth in Internet and Web use has stimulated many initiatives aimed at applying information and communication innovations to create what has been called a ‘‘digital’’ or ‘‘electronic democracy’’. Internet voting is already widespread in a variety of forms, some serious, most not. A new...

We thank Bill Fischel, Alan Gerber, Claudia Goldin, Naomi Lamoreaux, Ethan Lewis, Sendhil Mullainathan, Gavin Wright a¡d seminar partícipants at Dartmouth College, Hunter College and the University of Miami for helpful conversations in preparation of this draft. Cascio gratefully acknowledges research support from Dartmouth College, and Washington gratefully acknowledges research support from t...