Election turnout statistics in many countries: similarities, differences, and a diffusive field model for decision-making.

We study in details the turnout rate statistics for 77 elections in 11 different countries. We show that the empirical results established in a previous paper for French elections appear to hold much more generally. We find in particular that the spatial correlation of turnout rates decay logarithmi...

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Main Authors: Christian Borghesi, Jean-Claude Raynal, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3354000?pdf=render