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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>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/07/timing-is-everything-primacy-and-recency-effects-in-voter-mobilization-campaigns/#comments</comments>
		<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>U.S. State Election Reform and Turnout in Presidential Elections</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/06/u-s-state-election-reform-and-turnout-in-presidential-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/06/u-s-state-election-reform-and-turnout-in-presidential-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you move from one state to the next, you may find dramatic differences in election administration. Back in my home state of California, I registered as a permanent absentee voter. Prior to each election, I received my ballot in the mail, which I completed at my leisure and returned by mail. Here in Utah, [...]]]></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>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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		<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>Ready to Lead on Day One: Predicting Presidential Greatness from Political Experience</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/09/ready-to-lead-on-day-one-predicting-presidential-greatness-from-political-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/09/ready-to-lead-on-day-one-predicting-presidential-greatness-from-political-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all remember Hillary Clinton&#8217;s ad&#8211;&#8221;It&#8217;s 3:00am and your children are asleep.&#8221; She wanted voters to believe that her long political experience made her &#8220;ready to lead on day one,&#8221; unlike that untested other guy, Barack Obama. More generally, she wanted us to believe that more experienced presidents are better presidents. Well, that&#8217;s a testable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Governors Responsible for the State Economy? Partisanship, Blame, and Divided Federalism</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/are-governors-responsible-for-the-state-economy-partisanship-blame-and-divided-federalism/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/are-governors-responsible-for-the-state-economy-partisanship-blame-and-divided-federalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tooting my own horn: Here&#8217;s the university&#8217;s press release for my recent article. It gets things mostly right. A down economy usually spells trouble for incumbents, but a new study shows that six Republicans up for re-election this year caught a break when John McCain lost the last presidential election. The analysis found that some [...]]]></description>
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