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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Main Author: White, Ariel R. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020-11-23T17:16:39Z.
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