Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout? An Update
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9769784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan S Gerber (0000-0002-8133-3995, Yale University, corresponding author), Donald P Green (0000-0002-8850-438X, Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 601 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 142-154 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716205278445 |
| OpenAlex | W2080339078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article estimates the extent to which nonpartisan phone calls from commercial phone banks increase voter turnout. Prior to the 1998 and 2002 elections, randomized field experiments were conducted in which more than 1 million subjects were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. The results indicate that this type of phone calling campaign is ineffective
Advertising · Business · Control (management · Demographic economics · Economics · Mobile phone · Phone · Phone call · Political science · Politics · Randomized experiment · Statistics · Telecommunications · Turnout · Voter turnout · Voting · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Mathematics · Social Media and Politics
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |