An institutional analysis of voter turnout: the role of primary type and the expressive and instrumental voting hypotheses |
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| Authors: | Peter T Calcagno Christopher Westley |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Economics and Finance, College of Charleston, 66 George St, Charleston, SC 29424, USA;(2) Department of Finance, Economics, and Accounting, Jacksonville State University, 700 Pelham Road N, Jacksonville, AL 36265, USA |
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| Abstract: | Recent events highlight primary type as an institutional variable that merits further examination in the economics literature
on voter turnout. Using panel data for U.S. gubernatorial elections and treating primary type as a proxy for candidate deviation
from the median voter, we test whether primary type changes voter turnout and whether that change is dominated by instrumental
or expressive voting. The results show that states with more open primaries tend to have greater voter turnout in general
elections, and that this increase reflects the effect of open primaries on expressive voting.
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| Keywords: | Voter turnout Primary voting Expressive voting Instrumental voting |
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