Although field experiments have long been used to study voter turnout, only recently has this
research method generated widespread scholarly interest. This article reviews the …

Significant theories of democratic accountability hinge on how political campaigns affect
Americans' candidate choices. We argue that the best estimate of the effects of campaign …

The most important element in every election is getting voters to the polls—these get-out-the-
vote (GOTV) efforts make the difference between winning and losing office. With the first …

The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive
coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the …

Modern campaigns develop databases of detailed information about citizens to inform
electoral strategy and to guide tactical efforts. Despite sensational reports about the value of …

Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic
deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and …

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why?
Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a …

Political scientists often theorize that an explanatory variable should have “no effect” and
support this claim by demonstrating that its coefficient's estimate is not statistically significant …

Social scientists are interested in the effects of low‐dimensional latent treatments within
texts, such as the effect of an attack on a candidate in a political advertisement. We provide a …

This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual
electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in François Hollande's …