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Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout? An Update

Yale University, Center for the Study of American Politics

Donald P. Green

Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies

This article estimates the extent to which nonpartisan phone calls from commercial phone banks increase voter turnout. Prior to the 1998 and 2002 elections, randomized field experiments were conducted in which more than 1 million subjects were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. The results indicate that this type of phone calling campaign is ineffective.

Key Words: voter turnout • voter mobilization • field experiments

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 601, No. 1, 142-154 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716205278445


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