The Enduring Effects of Social Pressure: Tracking Campaign Experiments Over a Series of Elections

Recent field experiments have demonstrated the powerful effect of social pressure messages on voter turnout. This research note considers the question of whether these interventions' effects persist over a series of subsequent elections. Tracking more than one million voters from six experiment...

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Veröffentlicht in:Political behavior 2010-09, Vol.32 (3), p.423-430
Hauptverfasser: Davenport, Tiffany C., Gerber, Alan S., Green, Donald P., Larimer, Christopher W., Mann, Christopher B., Panagopoulos, Costas
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Zusammenfassung:Recent field experiments have demonstrated the powerful effect of social pressure messages on voter turnout. This research note considers the question of whether these interventions' effects persist over a series of subsequent elections. Tracking more than one million voters from six experimental studies, we find strong and statistically significant enduring effects one and sometimes two years after the initial communication.
ISSN:0190-9320
1573-6687
DOI:10.1007/s11109-010-9122-0