The Effect of a Nonpartisan Get-Out-the-Vote Drive: An Experimental Study of Leafletting

Journal of Politics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 846-857

  Gerber, Alan S ^a   Green, Donald P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84937327419     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0022-3816.00035     Document Type: Article

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