POS 3931r Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Get Out The Vote, Voter Fatigue, Voter Registration In The United States
29 Dec 2017
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Social networks of people with whom we interact are important in terms of encouraging us to vote an instilling in us and reinforcing the habit of voting. A good deal of recent research also examines what types of get out the vote (gotv) e orts appear to be most successful. Acquire (potential) voter list and randomly assign receipt of a gotv treatment to some people on the list (others on the list do not receive become the control group for comparison) Results: after election updated voter list to evaluate turnout rates. Lea eting, robocalls, tv gotv, radio gotv not e ective. Research that looks at voter turnout across the us reinforces the importance of: Campaign environment (is a state a battleground in a presidential election or not?) If the same state has lower turnout in one election, adopts edr, and has higher turnout in a later election, compelling evidence. Some nations have compulsory voting (illegal not to vote)
