The effect of identity-based GOTV direct mail appeals on the turnout of Indian Americans

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 601, Issue , 2005, Pages 115-122

  Trivedi, Neema ^a  

^a Yale's Institution for Social Policy Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct mail; Ethnic identity; Field experiment; GOTV; Indian American voters; Panethnic; Queens, New York; South Asian; Voter mobilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944542885     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000271620527860     Document Type: Article

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