scholarly journals Negative Campaigning, Fundraising, and Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Barton ◽  
Marco Castillo ◽  
Ragan Petrie
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Negative Campaigning

A Digital Field Experiment Reveals Large Effects of Friend-to-Friend Texting on Voter Turnout

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Schein ◽  
Keyon Vafa ◽  
Dhanya Sridhar ◽  
Victor Veitch ◽  
Jeffrey Quinn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout

If You Mobilize Them, They Will Become Informed: Experimental Evidence that Information Acquisition Is Endogenous to Costs and Incentives to Participate

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Anne Shineman
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
False Dichotomy ◽  
Before And After

Because non-voters are less politically informed than voters, some propose that increasing voter turnout would reduce the quality of information among the active voting population, damaging electoral outcomes. However, the proposed tradeoff between increased participation and informed participation is a false dichotomy. This article demonstrates that political information is endogenous to participation. A field experiment integrates an intensive mobilization treatment into a panel survey conducted before and after a city-wide election. Subjects who were mobilized to vote also became more informed about the content of the election. The results suggest institutions that encourage participation not only increase voter turnout – mobilizing electoral participation also motivates citizens to become more politically informed.

scholarly journals If We Build It, Only Some Will Come: An Experimental Study of Mobilization for Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Henderson ◽  
Hahrie Han
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Election Cycle ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Voucher Program ◽  
Electoral Reforms ◽  
New Democracy ◽  
Registered Voter

Abstract Seattle, Washington instituted a new “democracy voucher” program in 2017 providing each registered voter with four $25 campaign finance vouchers to contribute to municipal candidates. Prior research shows that without efforts to mobilize voters, electoral reforms like the voucher program are often insufficient to increase participation among underrepresented groups. We examine how mobilization affects the voucher program’s redistributive goals – does it increase participation among infrequent voters, or does it engage regular participants in politics? In the 2017 election cycle, we partnered with a coalition of advocacy organizations on a field experiment to estimate the effects of providing voters with information about democracy vouchers through door-to-door canvassing, texting, digital advertisements, and e-mails. While mobilization increased voucher use and voter turnout, responsiveness was greatest among frequent voters. As our findings suggest that transactional mobilizing is insufficient to engage infrequent participants, we posit that deeper organizing is necessary to fulfill the program’s redistributive goals.

scholarly journals Does canvassing increase voter turnout? A field experiment

1999 ◽  
Vol 96 (19) ◽  
pp. 10939-10942 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Gerber ◽  
D. P. Green
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout
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