Social Pressure, Descriptive Norms, and Voter Mobilization

Political Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 451-469

  Panagopoulos, Costas ^a   Larimer, Christopher W ^b   Condon, Meghan ^c  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Descriptive norms; Injunctive norms; Randomized field experiments; Social pressure; Voter mobilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901002473     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-013-9234-4     Document Type: Article

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