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Partisan Mobilization Using Volunteer Phone Banks and Door HangersUniversity of Notre Dame This article presents the results from a statewide partisan voter mobilization experiment in Michigan during the 2002 gubernatorial election. The tactics studied are volunteer phone calls and door hangers. With regard to turnout, the conclusion reached is that volunteer phone calls boost turnout by 3.2 percentage points and door hangers boost turnout by 1.2 percentage points. This effect size implies that both mobilization technologies are cost-competitive with door knocking and that partisan and nonpartisan campaigns are equally effective at increasing turnout. A postelection survey was used to determine whether the partisan blandishments to vote changed candidate preference. No evidence of persuasion from campaign contact was detected by the survey. However, the survey did indicate that the campaign failed in targeting likely Democratic voters and excluding likely Republican voters, emphasizing the need for detailed party databases.
Key Words: experiment • flyer • door-to-door • partisan • mobilization • vote choice • turnout • phone References
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 601, No. 1,
10-27 (2005) This article has been cited by other articles:
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