Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

By A. Gerber, Donald P. Green, C. Larimer. 2008

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Testing for altruism and social pressure in charitable giving. (2012, neutral): “…it builds on a literature in psychology (going back to Asch , 1951 and Milgram, 1963), in economics (Garicano, Palacios-Huerta, and Prendergast, 2005; Falk and Ichino, 2006; Mas and Moretti, forthcoming), and in political science (Gerber, Green, and Larimer, 2008) on the effect of social pressure.”
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Is Voting Habit Forming? New Evidence from Experiments and Regression Discontinuities (2016, background): “A possible exception, however, is GOTV campaigns that employ what Gerber, Green, and Larimer (2008) call “social pressure”: messages that forcefully assert the norm of doing one’s civic duty and promise that compliance with this norm will be verified using public records and publicized.”
Explaining Group Influence: The Role of Identity and Emotion in Political Conformity and Polarization (2015, background): “…in political science, with scholars quickly amassing considerable evidence that peers often influence one another’s political opinions and behaviors even when substantive information exchange and arguments are absent (e.g., Bolsen 2013; Gerber, Green, and Larimer 2008; Gerber and Rogers 2009).”
Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand (2018, neutral): “…of social pressure on economic, and social behavior, for example, charitable giving (DellaVigna et al., 2012) and voting (DellaVigna et al., 2017; Gerber et al., 2008).2 The paper proceeds as follows: in Section 2 we set up a simple theoretical model of experimenter demand that motivates our…”
Is There Backlash to Social Pressure? A Large-scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization (2010, methodology): “In particular, recent field experiments using social pressure to encourage voter participation have generated impressive increases in turnout ( Gerber et al. 2008, 2010; Davenport 2010; Panagopoulos 2010).”
Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes (2011, background): “, Ulbig and Funk 1999), (2) social and civic norms and expectations concerning behavior (e.g., Dalton 2008; Gerber et al. 2008), and (3) the weak relationship between political participation and instrumental outcomes (e.”