The Power of Immobility – Low Political Participation of Mobile Voters in Local Politics and Its Effect on Restrictive Land-use Regulation, Using Instrumental Variables

• In Event: Turnout, Turnover, and Vote Choice in Local Elections

Brief Overview

Potentially mobile voters might rationally underinvest in local politics, creating political disadvantages. I show the political inactivity with election turnout and survey questions, then link them to the local policies that favor stationary voters.

Author

• Makoto Fukumoto, University of California-Berkeley