Turned Off or Turned Out? Campaign Advertising,Information, and Voting
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- Houser, Daniel & Morton, Rebecca & Stratmann, Thomas, 2011. "Turned on or turned out? Campaign advertising, information and voting," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 27(4), pages 708-727.
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Keywords
Voting; campaign finance; abstention; voter turnout; experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2008-09-29 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2008-09-29 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2008-09-29 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2008-09-29 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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