Get Out the Vote-by-Mail? A Randomized Field Experiment Testing the Effect of Mobilization in Traditional and Vote-by-Mail Precincts

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 882-894

  Arceneaux, Kevin ^a   Kousser, Thad ^b   Mullin, Megan ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

election reform; field experiments; vote by mail; voter turnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868610430     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912911421013     Document Type: Article

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