The Enduring Effects of Social Pressure: Tracking Campaign Experiments Over a Series of Elections

Political Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 423-430

  Davenport, Tiffany C ^a   Gerber, Alan S ^a   Green, Donald P ^a   Larimer, Christopher W ^b   Mann, Christopher B ^c   Panagopoulos, Costas ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habit formation; Social norms; Voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956171981     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9122-0     Document Type: Article

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