Do phone calls increase voter turnout? An update
By: Gerber, Alan S
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Contributor(s): Green, Donald P.
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, September 2005The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 601, p. 142 - 154Abstract: This article estimates the extent to which nonpartisan phone calls from commercial phone banks increase voter turnout. Prior to the 1998 and 2002 elections, randomized field experiments were conducted in which more than 1 million subjects were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. The results indicate that this type of phone calling campaign is ineffective.
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This article estimates the extent to which nonpartisan phone calls from commercial phone banks increase voter turnout. Prior to the 1998 and 2002 elections, randomized field experiments were conducted in which more than 1 million subjects were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. The results indicate that this type of phone calling campaign is ineffective.
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