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Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France

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Title Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DDCNEW
 
Creator Pons, Vincent
Liegey, Guillaume
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Improving the political participation of immigrants could advance their interests and foster their integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants without having any statistically significant effect on non-immigrants, while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A postelectoral survey reveals that immigrants initially had less political information, which could explain the heterogeneous impact. Although the effect decays over subsequent elections, our findings suggest that voter outreach efforts can successfully increase immigrants' political participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Rubio, Karl
 
Type Administrative records data
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