Academic Journal
Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments
| العنوان: | Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments |
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| المؤلفون: | Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, David W. Nickerson |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://web.posc.jmu.edu/polbehavior/readings/Topic9_Environment/green et al turnout canvassing.pdf. |
| سنة النشر: | 2003 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | lists of registered voters were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. A few days before Election Day, the treatment group received a face-to-face contact from a coalition of nonpartisan student and community organizations, encouraging them to vote. After the election, voter turnout records were used to compare turnout rates among people assigned to treatment and control groups. Consistent with the recent experimental results reported by Gerber and Green (2000b), the findings here indicate that face-to-face voter mobilization was effective in stimulating voter turnout across a wide spectrum of local elections. Among the many distinctive attributes of American federalism is the frequency with which elections are held. Due to a profusion of state, municipal, and primary elections, the American voter has more opportunities to cast ballots than citizens of any other country. However, few Americans avail themselves of these abun-dant opportunities. Voter turnout slumps from presidential election years to even-numbered midterm elections. And in off-years, during which many local and some state elections are held, turnout levels fall even lower (Morlan 1984). Despite the immediate relevance of local issues to voters ’ lives, the typical U.S. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.455.6007; http://web.posc.jmu.edu/polbehavior/readings/Topic9_Environment/green et al turnout canvassing.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.455.6007 http://web.posc.jmu.edu/polbehavior/readings/Topic9_Environment/green et al turnout canvassing.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.92F49277 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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