Do community-based voter mobilization campaigns work even in battleground states? Evaluating the effectiveness of MoveOn's 2004 outreach campaign

Quarterly Journal of Political Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-82

  Middleton, Joel A ^a   Green, Donald P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67749113743     PISSN: 15540626     EISSN: 15540634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/100.00007019     Document Type: Article

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