Overview

A powerful new research design in the field of voter mobilization has created a more comprehensive picture of the effectiveness of various get-out-the-vote campaign methods. With an increase in field experiments in the past few years, researchers, campaigns, and policymakers have gleaned important insights into voter participation. ""Until recently, voting behavior was mainly studied through survey research. And while large national surveys have had a tremendous impact on scientific and policy debates, concerns about the accuracy of survey research remain. Surveys suffer from two major drawbacks. First is the possibility of misreporting by survey participants. Measuring voter turnout through survey research relies on respondents' disclosure of whether they voted or not, and some voters may feel embarrassed that they did not vote and provide false answers. Second, campaigns may focus their energies on likely voters. If so, surveys may show a correlation between voter turnout and voter mobilization activity even when voter mobilization campaigns are ineffective.""Aware of the limitations of survey research, political scientists have recently turned to field experimentation to gain a clearer picture of the causal implications of voter mobilization efforts on specific populations. ""This issue of The ANNALS presents the results of several field experiments, which are at the forefront of research in this area. These field experiments draw important distinctions between different forms of mobilization activities and their effects on a variety of populations u studying personal versus impersonal mobilization efforts as well as partisan versus non-partisan efforts. ""Challenging conventional wisdom and clarifying important methodological issues, this issue of The ANNALS provides a new approach to the study of voter mobilization. Taken together, these intriguing articles report advances in knowledge gained by field experiments and have the potential to reshape the past assumptions about campaign effectiveness and influence future strategies on mobilizing voters.""This issue will also serve as a springboard for new work in the field as political scientists grapple with filling in existing gaps u such as the effects of mass media u and move toward an even clearer theoretical understanding of the conditions under which interventions work. ""Professionals, volunteers and anyone directly involved in voter mobilization will discover important findings in this collection of studies. And, because the research was conducted in the real world of campaigns and elections, the authors help answer the critical question of how to apply scholarly insights to voter outreach programs on a grand scale.

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Author:   Donald Green
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Volume:   v. 601
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781412927574

ISBN 10:   1412927579
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   30 November 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Preface: Recent Advances in the Science of Voter Mobilization - Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber Partisan Mobilization Using Volunteer Phone Banks and Door-Hangers - David W. Nickerson An Experimental Field Study of the GOTV and Persuasion Effects of Partisan Direct Mail and Phone Calls - Emily Arthur Cardy Phone-based GOTV: What's on the line? Field Experiments with Varied Partisan Components, 2002-2003 - John E. McNulty Giving Voice to Latino Voters: A Field Experiment on the Effectiveness of a National Non-Partisan Mobilization Effort - Ricardo Ramirez Meeting the Challenge of Latino Voter Mobilization - Melissa R. Michelson Mobilizing Asian American Voters: A Field Experiment - Janelle Wong The Effect of Identity-Based GOTV Direct Mail: Appeals on the Turnout of Indian-Americans - Neema Trivedi Caught in the Ground Wars: Mobilizing Voters during a Competitive Congressional Campaign - Elizabeth A. Bennion Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout? An Update - Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green Unintentional Voter Mobilization: Does Participation in Pre-election Surveys Increase Voter Turnout? - Christopher B. Mann Using Cluster Randomized Field Experiments to Study Voting Behavior - Kevin Arceneaux What We Should Know about the Effectiveness of Campaigns but Don't - Peter Levine and Mark Hugo Lopez

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