Call Your Legislator: A Field Experimental Study of the Impact of a Constituency Mobilization Campaign on Legislative Voting
Call Your Legislator: A Field Experimental Study of the Impact of a Constituency Mobilization Campaign on Legislative Voting
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DOI：
10.1007/s11109-014-9277-1
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Cole, Richard T.
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作者：
Bergan, Daniel E.;Cole, Richard T.
鼓励选民与立法者联系的运动会影响公共政策吗？我们回答这个问题的现场实验中，密歇根州的立法者被随机分配到他们的选民就一个特定的法案或对照组进行接触。实地实验设计使我们能够产生内部和外部有效的估计，在立法投票的运动，敦促选民联系他们的立法者的影响。据估计，影响是巨大的：成为选民联系人的目标，使支持有关立法的可能性增加了约12个百分点。我们讨论了这些结果的规范和理论意义。
Do campaigns encouraging constituents to contact their legislator influence public policy? We answer this question with a field experiment in which Michigan state legislators are randomly assigned to be contacted by their constituents about a specific bill or to a control group. The field experimental design allows us to produce internally and externally valid estimates of the effects on legislative voting of a campaign in which constituents are urged to contact their legislator. The estimated effect is substantial: being targeted by constituent contacts increases the probability of supporting the relevant legislation by about 12 percentage points. We discuss the normative and theoretical implications of these results.