The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Gerber ◽  
Donald P. Green
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Direct Mail ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
Registered Voters

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 canvassing, direct mail, and telephone calls 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 our hypothesis that the long-term retrenchment in voter turnout is partly attributable to the decline in face-to-face political mobilization.

scholarly journals You’ve Got Mail: A Randomized Field Experiment on Tax Evasion

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 2801-2819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina M. Bott ◽  
Alexander W. Cappelen ◽  
Erik Ø. Sørensen ◽  
Bertil Tungodden
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Detection Probability ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment

We report from a large-scale randomized field experiment conducted on a unique sample of more than 15,000 taxpayers in Norway who were likely to have misreported their foreign income. By randomly manipulating a letter from the tax authorities, we cleanly identify that moral suasion and the perceived detection probability play a crucial role in shaping taxpayer behavior. The moral letter mainly works on the intensive margin, while the detection letter has a strong effect on the extensive margin. We further show that only the detection letter has long-term effects on tax compliance. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, behavioral economics.

scholarly journals Disaggregating Deliberation’s Effects: An Experiment within a Deliberative Poll

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Farrar ◽  
James S. Fishkin ◽  
Donald P. Green ◽  
Christian List ◽  
Robert C. Luskin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Revenue Sharing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Slight Effect ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Single Peakedness ◽  
Using Data

Using data from a randomized field experiment within a Deliberative Poll, this paper examines deliberation’s effects on both policy attitudes and the extent to which ordinal rankings of policy options approach single-peakedness (a help in avoiding cyclical majorities). The setting was New Haven, Connecticut, and its surrounding towns; the issues were airport expansion and revenue sharing – the former highly salient, the latter not at all. Half the participants deliberated revenue sharing, then the airport; the other half the reverse. This split-half design helps distinguish the effects of the formal on-site deliberations from those of other aspects of the treatment. As expected, the highly salient airport issue saw only a slight effect, while much less salient revenue-sharing issue saw a much larger one.

Mobilization and Voter Turnout: Should Canvassers Worry about the Weather?

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (03) ◽  
pp. 580-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ryan Lamare
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Contact Type ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Effects Of Temperature ◽  
Registered Voters

AbstractThis article melds a well-studied area of research (political mobilization effects on voter turnout) with a subject rarely discussed in political science (the effects of meteorological variability on mood, productivity, and fatigue) to argue that weather at the time of mobilization influences individual voters' turnout odds relative to other contacted voters. Using panel data totaling 39,769 registered voters contacted by unions across 14 months and five elections, quantitative analysis is used to measure the effects of temperature, seasonableness, and precipitation during contact on vote likelihood, controlling for known turnout influences. Results indicate that variations in all three weather conditions during contact affect vote odds. Mobilization effects are weaker as temperatures rise and weather becomes unseasonably hot; mobilization is also less successful as precipitation increases. Outcomes vary by contact type; door-to-door visits are more negatively influenced by hotter and less seasonable temperatures, whereas phone calls are more negatively affected by higher precipitation.

Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN S. GERBER ◽  
DONALD P. GREEN ◽  
CHRISTOPHER W. LARIMER
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Intrinsic Satisfaction ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
Registered Voters

Voter turnout theories based on rational self-interested behavior generally fail to predict significant turnout unless they account for the utility that citizens receive from performing their civic duty. We distinguish between two aspects of this type of utility, intrinsic satisfaction from behaving in accordance with a norm and extrinsic incentives to comply, and test the effects of priming intrinsic motives and applying varying degrees of extrinsic pressure. A large-scale field experiment involving several hundred thousand registered voters used a series of mailings to gauge these effects. Substantially higher turnout was observed among those who received mailings promising to publicize their turnout to their household or their neighbors. These findings demonstrate the profound importance of social pressure as an inducement to political participation.

Psychopathology 8½ Years Post Parasuicide

Crisis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Curran ◽  
Michael Fitzgerald ◽  
Vincent T Greene
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scales ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Parental Bonding ◽  
Social Maladjustment ◽  
Term Outcome ◽  
Long Term Outcome ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

There are few long-term follow-up studies of parasuicides incorporating face-to-face interviews. To date no study has evaluated the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity at long-term follow-up of parasuicides using diagnostic rating scales, nor has any study examined parental bonding issues in this population. We attempted a prospective follow-up of 85 parasuicide cases an average of 8½ years later. Psychiatric morbidity, social functioning, and recollections of the parenting style of their parents were assessed using the Clinical Interview Schedule, the Social Maladjustment Scale, and the Parental Bonding Instrument, respectively. Thirty-nine persons in total were interviewed, 19 of whom were well and 20 of whom had psychiatric morbidity. Five had died during the follow-up period, 3 by suicide. Migration, refusals, and untraceability were common. Parasuicide was associated with parental overprotection during childhood. Long-term outcome is poor, especially among those who engaged in repeated parasuicides.

Biomass production of weeds on the winter wheat stubble in long-term fertilization field experiment

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Éva Lehoczky ◽  
András Kismányoky ◽  
Tamás Kismányoky
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Wheat Stubble

Long-term Archive of the DUCK94 Nearshore Field Experiment Data

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Birkemeier ◽  
Kent Hathaway ◽  
Ravi Sinha ◽  
Kossi Edoh ◽  
Awatif Amin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Experiment Data
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