The Electoral College System, Political Party Dominance, And Voter Turnout, With Evidence from the 2004 Presidential Election (Report‪)‬

Introduction Since the introduction of the "rational voter model" by Downs (1957), there have followed numerous and highly varied theoretical extensions and empirical studies to enhance, to better understand, and to empirically test the theory or variations thereof in a host of both "real world" and "experimental" contexts (Buchanan and Tullock 1962; Tullock 1967; Buchanan 1968; Riker and Ordeshook 1968; Brazel and Silberberg 1973; Ashenfelter and Kelly 1975; Tideman and Tullock 1976; Wolfinger and Rosenstone 1980; Kafoglis and Cebula 1981; Cebula and Kafoglis 1983; Ledyard 1984; Aldrich and Simon 1986; Morton 1987; Schwartz 1987; Piven and Cloward 1988; Cox and Munger 1989; Morton 1991; Teixeira 1992; Aldrich 1993; Green and Shapiro 1994; Verba et al. 1995; Leighly 1996; Lapp 1999; Greene and Nikolaw 1999; Knack 1999; Putnam 2000; Cebula 2001; Copeland and LaBand 2002; Barreto et al. 2004; Borgers 2004; Cebula 2004; Feddersen 2004).