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Replication Data for: Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines

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Title Replication Data for: Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S3HACJ
 
Creator López-Moctezuma, Gabriel
Wantchekon, Leonard
Rubenson, Daniel
Fujiwara, Thomas
Lero, Cecilia Pe
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description In a randomized experiment in cooperation with two national parties competing
in a congressional election in the Philippines, we estimate the causal effect on voting
behavior of a town-hall style campaign in which candidates discuss their campaign
platform with small groups of citizens. Keeping the parties’ platform fixed, we find
that town-hall meetings have a positive effect on parties’ vote shares compared to the
status quo, in which voters play a passive role. Consistent with the parties’ advocacy
for underprivileged groups, we observe heterogeneous effects by income, education
and gender. Deliberative campaigns increase voters’ awareness on the issues parties
campaign on, affecting the vote of the direct beneficiaries of the parties’ platform.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Deliberative campaigns
Field experiments
Political communication
Voting behavior
 
Contributor López-Moctezuma, Gabriel