How Different Are Telephoning and Canvassing? Results from a ‘Get Out the Vote’ Field Experiment in the British 2005 General Election

British Journal of Political Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 565-574

  John, Peter ^a   Brannan, Tessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 69849133161     PISSN: 00071234     EISSN: 14692112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007123408000288     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. The main non-US study is Mei Guan and Donald P. Green, ‘Noncoercive Mobilization in State-Controlled Elections: An Experimental Study in Beijing’, Comparative Political Studies, 39 (2006), 1175-93.
2. The Electoral Commission funds projects involving voter mobilization at the community level, see Electoral Commission, New Initiatives Fund: Information for Prospective Applicants (London: Electoral Commission, 2003).
3. J. M. Bochel and David Denver, ‘Canvassing, Turnout and Party Support: An Experiment’, British Journal of Political Science, 1 (1971), 257-69.
4. Gerber and Green, ‘The Effects of Canvassing, Direct Mail and Telephone Contact on Voter Turnout’.
5. Gerber and Green, ‘The Effects of Canvassing, Direct Mail and Telephone Contact on Voter Turnout’.
6. Gerber and Green, ‘The Effects of Canvassing, Direct Mail and Telephone Contact on Voter Turnout’, pp. 65-8.
7. David W. Nickerson, ‘Scalable Protocols Offer Efficient Design for Field Experiments’, Political Analysis, 13 (2005), 233-52.
8. Nickerson, ‘Scalable Protocols Offer Efficient Design for Field Experiments’.
9. Gerber and Green, ‘The Effects of Canvassing, Direct Mail and Telephone Contact on Voter Turnout’, pp. 657-8.
10. Green, Gerber and Nickerson, ‘Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections’, p. 1085.
11. Kosuke Imai, ‘Do Get-Out-the-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout? The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Experiments’, American Political Science Review, 99 (2005), 283-300.
12. Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green, ‘Correction to Gerber and Green (2000): Replication of Disputed Findings and Reply to Imai (2005)’, American Political Science Review, 99 (2005), 301-13.
13. Gerber and Green, ‘The Effects of Canvassing, Direct Mail and Telephone Contact on Voter Turnout’, p. 657.
14. Nickerson, ‘Volunteer Phone Calls Can Increase Turnout’, p. 283.
15. Nickerson, ‘Volunteer Phone Calls Can Increase Turnout’, p. 283.