Do phone calls increase voter turnout? An update

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 601, Issue , 2005, Pages 142-154

  Gerber, Alan S ^a,b   Green, Donald P ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for the Study of American Politics   (United States)

^c Institution for Social and Policy Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Field experiments; Voter mobilization; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944559748     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716205278445     Document Type: Article

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