Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals (2015, unknown): “There is UK evidence that marginality affects various policies and political behavior in other dimensions (e.g. Besley and Preston, 2007, and Larcinese, 2007).”
Internet and Politics: Evidence from U.K. Local Elections and Local Government Policies (2015, background): “First, a growing body of papers study the role of media in politics: Strömberg (2004b), Gentzkow (2006), Larcinese (2007), DellaVigna and Kaplan (2007), Ferraz and Finan (2008), Prat and Strömberg (2005), Snyder and Strömberg (2010), Enikolopov, Petrova, and Zhuravskaya (2011), Gentzkow,…”
Human Rights Organizations as Agents of Change: An Experimental Examination of Framing and Micromobilization (2015, background): “…studies show that providing factual information about an issue reduces the costs associated with information gathering, yielding a significant and sizeable impact on an individual’s likelihood of political participation (Haspel and Knotts 2005; Ladner and Pianzola 2010; Larcinese 2007).”
Does information increase political support for pension reform? (2010, unknown): “To name a few: based on survey data from the 1997 British General Election Study, Larcinese (2007) shows that political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in influencing political participation.”