Do party leaflets and canvass visits increase voter turnout?

Townsley, Joshua (2018) Do party leaflets and canvass visits increase voter turnout? [['eprint_typename_blog_post' not defined]]
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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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Date Deposited 24 Jun 2021 23:29
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/109746

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