Do party leaflets and canvass visits increase voter turnout?

Townsley, J. (16 October 2018) Do party leaflets and canvass visits increase voter turnout? Democratic Audit Blog.
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Experiments in the US consistently find that Get Out The Vote campaigns boost participation at election time. Is the same true for Britain? Using a field experiment carried out in cooperation with the Liberal Democrats in May 2017, Joshua Townsley finds that leaflets and canvass visits did boost turnout, but that postal voters were unaffected by campaign contact.

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