Add to ORKGDoes calling your legislator actually lead to results for those who are passionately for or against certain legislation? In new research, using a randomized field experiment, Daniel Bergan finds that it does. Those legislators who received at least one phone call from a constituent asking them to support a certain bill were 11-12 percent more likely to support the legislation, an effect independent of the legislators’ party, gender or the competitiveness of their district
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Mass emails are frequently used by advocacy groups to mobilise supporters to lobby legislators. But ...
In addition to mobilizing supporters to vote, partisan campaigns use get-out-the-vote tactics as a m...
Three field experiments were used to investigate whether a constituent’s education level influences ...
What has a greater effect on legislative outcomes, campaign donations and lobbying efforts (the insi...
It is generally accepted that constituents punish and reward their elected representatives at the ba...
Numerous scholars have used roll-call votes to analyze legislative behavior and the impact of party ...
Does lawmaker behavior influence electoral outcomes? Observational studies cannot elucidate the effe...
Interest groups often seek to influence legislators and legislative behaviour. We argue that the lik...
We contribute to the understanding of political inequality in the U.S. by investigating whether race...
Does representatives' legislative activity have any effect on their electoral performance? A broad t...
Political scientists have long tried to explain how interest group lobbying and political action com...
Using a new data set on over 4,200 state legislators in 30 states, this paper systematically tests t...
We contribute to the understanding of political inequality in the U.S. by investigating whether stat...
Do citizens hold their representatives accountable for policy decisions, as commonly assumed in theo...
Influential theories depict politicians as, alternatively, strongly constrained by public opinion, a...
Mass emails are frequently used by advocacy groups to mobilise supporters to lobby legislators. But ...
In addition to mobilizing supporters to vote, partisan campaigns use get-out-the-vote tactics as a m...
Three field experiments were used to investigate whether a constituent’s education level influences ...