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Replication Data for: Getting the Message: Why Mail-Delivered GOTV Interventions Succeed or Fail

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Title Replication Data for: Getting the Message: Why Mail-Delivered GOTV Interventions Succeed or Fail
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DPDU4P
 
Creator Fortier-Chouinard, Alexandre
Bodet, Marc André
Gélineau, François
Savoie, Justin
Ouimet, Mathieu
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Mail-delivered get-out-the-vote (GOTV) field experiments have been found to increase voter turnout in some – but not all – contexts. We hypothesize that GOTV interventions are more successful in low-salience elections, and test this in a systematic way for the first time. Relying on a systematic literature review and a meta-regression framework, we find that primary elections have a strong and significant positive impact on the success of mail-delivered GOTV interventions, but not other commonly used measures of election salience such as voter turnout, margin of victory, and a dummy for local elections. Our results highlight the possibility of fostering voter turnout using GOTV mail messages, especially in primary settings.
 
Subject Social Sciences
meta-regression mail-delivered get-out-the-vote field experiment
 
Contributor Fortier-Chouinard, Alexandre