Knocking on voters’ doors to increase participation in the 2016 London mayoral election

In this blog post, Sebastian Rodriguez Perez, an Executive Master of Public Administration student, summarizes his work in encouraging East Londoners to vote for the Liberal Democratic party in the 2016 Mayor of London and London Assembly elections. He carried out a Randomised Evaluation Experiment which measured the effect of personal canvassing and leafleting appeals on voter turnout when a partisan message is conveyed.