The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment (Gerber & Green, 2000)

Quoted from this source 3 passages

• “Successful personal contact through canvassing raised the probability of voter turnout by 8.7 percentage points relative to those in the comparison group who would likely have been reached with canvassing.”

• “The effect of the direct mailings was small (0.5 percentage points increase in voter turnout per mailing), and there was no indication that telephone appeals raised turnout.”

• “Voter turnout was increased substantially by personal canvassing, slightly by direct mail, and not at all by telephone calls.”

Relied on by 2 pages

• note Turnout
• note Evidence for campaign tactics