The effects of canvassing, telephone calls, and direct mail on voter turnout : a field experiment
By: Gerber, Alan S
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Contributor(s): Green, Donald P.
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ArticlePublisher: 2000American Political Science Review 94, 3, p. 653-664Abstract: We report the results of a randomized field experiment involving approximately 30.000 registered voters in New Haven, Connecticut. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were conveyed through personal cavassing, direct mail, and telephone cals shortly before the November 1998 election. A variety of substantive messages were used. Voter turnout was increased substantially by personal canvassing, slightly by direct mail, and not at all by telephone calls. These findings support out hypothesis that the long-term retrenchment in voter turnout is partly attributable to the decline in face-to-cafe political mobilization
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We report the results of a randomized field experiment involving approximately 30.000 registered voters in New Haven, Connecticut. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were conveyed through personal cavassing, direct mail, and telephone cals shortly before the November 1998 election. A variety of substantive messages were used. Voter turnout was increased substantially by personal canvassing, slightly by direct mail, and not at all by telephone calls. These findings support out hypothesis that the long-term retrenchment in voter turnout is partly attributable to the decline in face-to-cafe political mobilization
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