a field experiment in a 2010 general election for local office to identify the persuasive mechanism behind a particular … form of campaigning: candidate door-to-door canvassing. In the experiment, the candidate either canvassed a household or …

field experiment that we conducted during the 2013 Moscow mayoral election, we published a newspaper criticizing the …Modern autocracies today hold elections but employ a number of tactics to control election outcomes. In response to … month prior to the election date. We find that the incumbent mayor's vote share was lower by 1.89 percentage points at the …

, however, is that voters in less than democratic states often are marginalized because of widespread election fraud. Field … election day. The results also confirm that all regimes are not equally sensitive to such interventions. For the first time new … outcome. It is suggested that when faced with monitoring, autocrats substitute election fraud with other forms of manipulation …

survey experiment shows that reading the statements increased voter knowledge substantially. Thus, the Citizens’ Initiative …

) initiatives, or can affect outcomes in either direction. We report the first well-powered precinct-randomized field experiment to … changing how citizens vote, as opposed to by influencing turnout or ballot completion. Our experiment (involving around 18% of …

We investigate a randomized field experiment to determine the effectiveness of door-to-door campaigning by a candidate … on outcomes in a general election. The candidate campaigned door-to-door in randomly-selected voting precincts, which … detailed precinct-level demographic characteristics, vote totals for the candidate in the prior election, and vote totals for a …