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		<title>Motivating Voter Turnout by Invoking the Self</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/07/motivating-voter-turnout-by-invoking-the-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find voter mobilization experiments fascinating. That&#8217;s why I write about them a lot (e.g. here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here). But the study I just read may be the coolest one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timing is Everything? Primacy and Recency Effects in Voter Mobilization Campaigns</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/07/timing-is-everything-primacy-and-recency-effects-in-voter-mobilization-campaigns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, political scientists have run a variety of field experiments to show exactly which methods of voter mobilization are most effective. However, those experiments have focused mostly on method, not on timing. In a recent article, Costas Panagopoulos used a randomized field experiment to test whether voter mobilization drives work better when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Party Faithful: Partisan Images, Candidate Religion, and the Electoral Impact of Party Identification</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/05/the-party-faithful-partisan-images-candidate-religion-and-the-electoral-impact-of-party-identification/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/05/the-party-faithful-partisan-images-candidate-religion-and-the-electoral-impact-of-party-identification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American voters tend to vote for their party&#8217;s candidate. That&#8217;s not news. The question is, why? Political science has usually relied on three answers. The psychological approach says that voters support their party because of a deep, emotional, psychological attachment to it (see The American Voter). The rational approach characterized partisanship as a &#8220;running tally&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Experiment Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Encouraging Voter Participation by Inducing Feelings of Pride or Shame</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/11/an-experiment-testing-the-relative-effectiveness-of-encouraging-voter-participation-by-inducing-feelings-of-pride-or-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/11/an-experiment-testing-the-relative-effectiveness-of-encouraging-voter-participation-by-inducing-feelings-of-pride-or-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We already know from Gerber et al. (2008) that social pressure can boost voter turnout. As part of Political Behavior&#8216;s special issue on social pressure and turnout (read some background), Gerber et al. join forces again with a new question: Does negative pressure (shame) work better than positive pressure (pride)? To find out, they sampled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Backlash to Social Pressure? A Large-scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/11/is-there-backlash-to-social-pressure-a-large-scale-field-experiment-on-voter-mobilization/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/11/is-there-backlash-to-social-pressure-a-large-scale-field-experiment-on-voter-mobilization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Gerber et al. published a pioneering study of mobilization. Using heavy-handed tactics, they found that they could shame people into voting (read more). Using heavy-handed tactics might be fine for academics, but real-world campaigns can&#8217;t use those tactics without alienating their supporters. For example, Utah&#8217;s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Mike Lee, sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation: Field Experimental Evidence of the Mobilizing Effects of Pride, Shame, and Publicizing Voting Behavior</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/11/affect-social-pressure-and-prosocial-motivation-field-experimental-evidence-of-the-mobilizing-effects-of-pride-shame-and-publicizing-voting-behavior/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/11/affect-social-pressure-and-prosocial-motivation-field-experimental-evidence-of-the-mobilizing-effects-of-pride-shame-and-publicizing-voting-behavior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose a local newspaper planned to honor those who vote by listing their names in a post-election issue. Would you be more likely to vote? Now, suppose a local newspaper planned to shame those who stayed home by listing their names instead. Would you be more likely to vote? That&#8217;s the question Costas Panagopoulos asks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Accountability and Political Participation: Effects of Face-to-Face Feedback Intervention on Voter Turnout of Public Housing Residents</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/10/public-accountability-and-political-participation-effects-of-face-to-face-feedback-intervention-on-voter-turnout-of-public-housing-residents/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/10/public-accountability-and-political-participation-effects-of-face-to-face-feedback-intervention-on-voter-turnout-of-public-housing-residents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a few things we know about voter turnout: The urban poor don&#8217;t vote. Voter turnout experiments don&#8217;t typically focus on non-voting populations like the urban poor. Turnout is lower in municipal elections than presidential elections. Sending door-to-door canvassers with a mobilization message can boost turnout by 8-9 percentage points. Social pressure can boost turnout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Social Pressure and Voting: New Experimental Evidence</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/10/introduction-to-social-pressure-and-voting-new-experimental-evidence/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/10/introduction-to-social-pressure-and-voting-new-experimental-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Gerber, Green, and Larimer (2008) shook up research on turnout with a stunning experimental result: You can raise turnout dramatically with a postcard. Not just any postcard, of course. If you received one of their postcards, you would have seen your own turnout record over the past few elections. You would also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party Power or Preferences? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from American State Legislatures</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/09/party-power-or-preferences-quasi-experimental-evidence-from-american-state-legislatures/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/09/party-power-or-preferences-quasi-experimental-evidence-from-american-state-legislatures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider why some bills can get through a legislature but others can&#8217;t. Perhaps (1) legislator preferences are all that matters; liberal legislators vote for liberal bills and against conservative ones. Perhaps (2) majority party cajoling also matters; if a strong majority leader can persuade his caucus to vote for a bill, it passes. Perhaps (3) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Electoral Costs of Party Loyalty in Congress</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/the-electoral-costs-of-party-loyalty-in-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/the-electoral-costs-of-party-loyalty-in-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I wrote about Ansolabehere and Jones&#8217;s article in AJPS showing that voters really do hold members of Congress accountable for their voting record in Congress. On the very next page in AJPS, we find another article on the same theme. But Carson et al. want to change the way we think about this accountability. [...]]]></description>
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