Misdemeanor Disenfranchisement? The Demobilizing Effects of Brief Jail Spells on Potential Voters
This paper presents new causal estimates of incarceration's effect on voting, using administrative data on criminal sentencing and voter turnout. I use the random case assignment process of a major county court system as a source of exogenous variation in the sentencing of misdemeanor cases. Fo...
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Cambridge University Press (CUP),
2020-11-23T17:16:39Z.
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