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Constituent contacts can influence how legislators vote

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    • Publication Information:
      London School of Economics and Political Science
    • Publication Date:
      2015
    • Collection:
      The London School of Economics and Political Science: LSE Research Online
    • Abstract:
      Does 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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    • Relation:
      http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/61939/1/blogs.lse.ac.uk-Constituent%20contacts%20can%20influence%20how%20legislators%20vote.pdf; Bergan, Daniel (2015) Constituent contacts can influence how legislators vote. USApp– American Politics and Policy Blog (29 Apr 2015). Website.
    • Online Access:
      http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/61939/
      http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
    • Rights:
      cc_by_nc_nd_4
    • Accession Number:
      edsbas.83FBC1C3