Voting May Be Habit-Forming: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By A. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Ron Shachar. 2003

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Turning Out to Vote: The Costs of Finding and Getting to the Polling Place (2011, background): “There are very strong reasons for expecting 2002 turnout behavior (Gerber, Green, and Shachar 2003) and age (Miller and Shanks 1996, chapter 3) to affect turnout so we match on it.”
The Perverse Consequences of Electoral Reform in the United States (2005, background): “10. See Brody and Sniderman (1977) and Gerber, Green, and Shacher (2003) for a discussion of habitual patterns of voting behavior.”
Field experiments across the social sciences (2017, background): “In addition, mobilizing efforts have been shown to have a lasting effect: Treated groups are more likely to vote both in the imminent election and in subsequent ones (Gerber et al. 2003).”
Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections (2016, methodology): “The fact that our estimate exceeds that of Gerber, Green, and Shachar (2003) presents a greater puzzle.”
Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Optimal Planning of the Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign (2011, background): “…century ago (e.g., Gosnell 1927; Hartmann 1936; Eldersveld 1956), many researchers developed creative ways to conduct large-scale field experiments to study voter turnout in real electoral environment (see Gerber and Green 2000; Gerber, Green, and Shachar 2003; Nickerson 2008, among many others).”
Turnout as a Habit (2011, background): “Gerber et al.’s (2003) study of the downstream effect of experimental treatments on future behavior provides a baseline for using experiments to study habit formation.”
TESTING ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE FIELD: THREAT, MORAL APPEAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION (2013, background): “One might argue that many people pay the fees habitually (see Gerber et al., 2003, for a related study on this issue). The fact that habit formation depends on the way of getting people to act for the first time is illustrated by Landry et al. (2011). In our context, however, the low number of de-re”
Habitual Voting and Behavioral Turnout (2006, methodology): “This result is at odds with a substantial literature that indicates most people are habitual voters—they either always vote or always abstain (Gerber, Green, and Shachar 2003; Green and Shachar 2000; Miller and Shanks 1996; Plutzer 2002; Verba and Nie 1972).”
The Formation of Voting Habits (2012, background): “432 E. Dinas Although recent studies suggest that voting should be theorized as a process of habit formation (Denny & Doyle, 2009; Franklin, 2004; Green & Shachar, 2000; Plutzer, 2002), the existing evidence is still in its infancy and is not firmly established as an empirical regularity.”