Effects of Voter Turnout: Natural Experiment vs. Field Experiment
What effects voter turnout? There have been many studies that can show empirical evidence as to what effects voter participation and how it is affected. I analyzed two very descriptive political science articles referring to voter turnout. One was a field experiment on the effects of personal canvassing versus other types of contact, such as direct mailing and telephone calls. The second article explained a natural experiment that analyzed voter turnout due to political knowledge and the causal effects of the better informed people on the propensity to vote.
In a study by political scientists Alan S. Gerber and Donald p. Green (2000), of Yale University conducted a field experiment to clarify whether there were any effects on voter turnout due to personal canvassing, contact by telephone, or even direct mailings. Their theory was that declining political participation rates falls under the claim that personal......
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