Get Out the Vote! Is a practical guide for anyone trying to mobilize voters or organize at the grass roots. Unlike authors of other campaign advice books, Donald Green and Alan Gerber root their work firmly in rigorous science. Their recommendations emerge from thorough experiments conducted in real electoral settings, examining the impact and effectiveness of door-to-door canvassing, telephone calls, direct mail, and other campaign tactics. Since 1998 the authors have conducted research in over a dozen states, studying a wide range of federal, state, and municipal elections. Their book connects theory with practice, informing campaign professionals and local organizers as well as students of electoral politics. They discover that many GOTV tactics used by campaign managers and political consultants are less effective than is often believed. The authors, relying on rigorous and systematic research, challenge much of the conventional wisdom about what works and what doesnt in the political campaigns. The authors applied form of political science has won acclaim from scholars and earned the attention of campaign professionals and journalists. This book presents their result for a non-academic audience interested in putting campaign research into practice, and the findings will be surprising to many. Get Out the Vote! will help both consultants and the candidates who use their services better understand the efficacy of campaign methods. It is essential reading in an age of electronic communication, professional electioneering and voter apathy.
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"Green and Gerber have provided a valuable resource for grass-roots campaigns across the spectrum." -- National Journal, April 13, 2006
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Donald P. Green is a professor of political science at Yale University, where he has taught for more than a decade. An expert on elections and campaign finance, he has written widely on public opinion and political behavior and is coauthor of Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters (Yale, 2000).
Alan S. Gerber is a professor of political science at Yale University. He has published extensively on campaigns, elections, and representation in journals such as the American Political Science Review. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Getting People to the Polls Takes Effort,
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Surprising conclusions...except, not really.
It is good that some of this stuff has worked out, but a lot of it could be articulated by most people who spend time on GOTV. Political contact works better the more it is like a face-to-face conversation about information relevant to the person's life. Hence, door-to-door canvassing is the most effective. Not surprising. Phones come in second. Not surprising. The more conversational and informational the phone call is, the more effective is. Still not surprising. But this book is also a somewhat daunting reminder of just how difficult a good GOTV effort is. Virtually every one of their models pans out to about one additional voter for every hour of voter contact. Boy am I looking forward to next weekend.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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The first real measurement of what works in GOTV,
By Hal Malchow (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Get Out the Vote!: How to Increase Your Voter Turnout (Paperback)
Donald Green and Alan Gerber have done something that political professionals have failed to do. They have actually measured what works and does not work in GOTV. The results are sobering, enlightening and, above all, invaluable to any campaign manager who wants to get the most from his campaign dollars.
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Invaluable book for campaign workers,
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This book is very important for campaign workers for the simple reason that it provides statistical proof of "common sense" assumptions about campaigning. Perhaps more importantly, it also demonstrates to first time candidates & campaign workers that some highly-touted gimmicks DON'T work and are a waste of money. It seems to me well worth the price of the book to know how not to waste a campaign's time & money.
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The United States has the busiest election calendar on earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
youth vote, federal midterm elections, nonpartisan mail, commercial phone banks, partisan direct mail, bilingual mailings, advocacy mail, received solid confirmation, polling place information, canvassing experiments, robo calls, professional phone banks, phone bank efforts, phone bank campaign, volunteer phone banks, bulk mail facility, robotic calls, raising turnout, more equivocal findings, canvassing campaign, cost per vote, voters eighteen, mail experiments, canvassing effort, presidential ads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Election Day, Los Angeles, David Nickerson, New Haven, Donald Green, New Jersey, Alan Gerber, Melissa Michelson, New York, Votes For Students, African American, National Voter Fund, Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Asian American, Mark Grebner, Christopher Mann, Kevin Arceneaux, United States, Rock the Vote, Orange County, New Mexico, California Votes Initiative, Dos Palos, Michigan Democratic Party, Emily Cardy Browse Sample Pages:
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The United States has the busiest election calendar on earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
youth vote, federal midterm elections, nonpartisan mail, commercial phone banks, partisan direct mail, bilingual mailings, advocacy mail, received solid confirmation, polling place information, canvassing experiments, robo calls, professional phone banks, phone bank efforts, phone bank campaign, volunteer phone banks, bulk mail facility, robotic calls, raising turnout, more equivocal findings, canvassing campaign, cost per vote, voters eighteen, mail experiments, canvassing effort, presidential ads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Election Day, Los Angeles, David Nickerson, New Haven, Donald Green, New Jersey, Alan Gerber, Melissa Michelson, New York, Votes For Students, African American, National Voter Fund, Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Asian American, Mark Grebner, Christopher Mann, Kevin Arceneaux, United States, Rock the Vote, Orange County, New Mexico, California Votes Initiative, Dos Palos, Michigan Democratic Party, Emily Cardy Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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