In contrast to non-partisan GOTV campaigns, political parties do not aim to increase turnout across the board. Instead, their principal goal is to affect the outcome of an election in their favour. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to test the effects of Conservative Party door-to-door canvassing and leafleting on the turnout of registered voters who support different parties in an English Parliamentary constituency during the 2014 European Elections. Using commonly-used light-touch campaign interventions, randomly assigned leaflets and door-knocks changed the composition of the electorate in favour of the Conservative Party, by decreasing turnout overall. Increasing turnout among Conservative and unattached voters went hand-in-hand with decreasing turnout among supporters of rival parties such as Labour. Moreover, in contrast to the non-partisan GOTV literature, we show that partisan door-knocks did not affect the composition of the electorate over and above what we would expect from impersonal campaign leaflets alone. We conclude that the campaign tactic of contacting supporters, opponents and unattached voters alike, was very effective as a campaign tactic, but had negative effects on political participation.
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The article examines the content, peculiarities and procedures of mass political campaigns that took place between 1946 and 1953 as part of Stalinist policy. The author analyzes the term 'campaign', describes the role of 'letters to the authorities' (complaints) and examines two types of political campaigns: 1) campaigns mobilizing the population for 'the construction of Socialism' and 2) repressive campaigns to eliminate enemies. Archive and newspaper materials help reconstruct the procedure of campaigns where each stage had its functions.
{"title":"Political Campaigns of the Stalin Period: Their Content, Peculiarities and Structure","authors":"A. Kimerling","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2423717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2423717","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the content, peculiarities and procedures of mass political campaigns that took place between 1946 and 1953 as part of Stalinist policy. The author analyzes the term 'campaign', describes the role of 'letters to the authorities' (complaints) and examines two types of political campaigns: 1) campaigns mobilizing the population for 'the construction of Socialism' and 2) repressive campaigns to eliminate enemies. Archive and newspaper materials help reconstruct the procedure of campaigns where each stage had its functions.","PeriodicalId":371785,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Campaigns (Topic)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130203412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper addresses a key question that has thus far received scant attention: How do presidential candidates frame, spin, and sell the economic news on the campaign trail? A controlled random sample of 180 news articles was taken between August 2008 to November 2008 from six regionally diverse newspapers, The New York Times, USA Today, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Philadelphia Inquirer. In spite of conventional expectations related to candidate discussions, economics along with general defense issues and energy/environment were the most discussed policy issues in the 2008 election. Economic news reporting, thus, is dependent upon political cycles, presidential candidates, and varying economic concerns. Additionally, the evidence suggests that both candidate concerns and contemporary economic issues drive candidate speech related to the economy.
{"title":"A Failure to Report? Presidential Election Politics and the 2008 Economic Crisis","authors":"E. Miller","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2145527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2145527","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses a key question that has thus far received scant attention: How do presidential candidates frame, spin, and sell the economic news on the campaign trail? A controlled random sample of 180 news articles was taken between August 2008 to November 2008 from six regionally diverse newspapers, The New York Times, USA Today, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Philadelphia Inquirer. In spite of conventional expectations related to candidate discussions, economics along with general defense issues and energy/environment were the most discussed policy issues in the 2008 election. Economic news reporting, thus, is dependent upon political cycles, presidential candidates, and varying economic concerns. Additionally, the evidence suggests that both candidate concerns and contemporary economic issues drive candidate speech related to the economy.","PeriodicalId":371785,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Campaigns (Topic)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115595190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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