Browsing by Author "Morada, Anna Patricia L."
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Item Restricted Do people vote to settle differences? social diversity and electoral participation and competition in the Philippines(2016-12) Morada, Anna Patricia L.; Rivera, Leo Albert N.; Capuno, Joseph J.Literature on public choice seeks to determine what makes people vote. By establishing that voters are rational and elections are multi-dimensional, we argue that social cleavages and differences in individual characteristics influence voter turnout and electoral competition. We explore how several social diversity factors (demo-graphical differences) influence electoral participation and electoral competition in the Philippines. By treating the current data as pooled cross-sectional and panel, we estimate voter turnout and vote shares of winning candidates across the different provinces in the Philippines for the years 2001 and 2010, and we find that, together, different social diversity measures have varying significant effects to electoral outcomes, although no consistency is observed.