Field experiments on political behavior and collective action

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 12, Issue , 2009, Pages 389-395

  de Rooij, Eline A ^a   Green, Donald P ^b   Gerber, Alan S ^b  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Randomized trials; Voter mobilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 69049083793     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.060107.154037     Document Type: Article

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