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Campaign Mailers and Intent to Turnout: Do Similar Field and Survey Experiments Yield the Same Conclusions?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2019

David Doherty Open the ORCID record for David Doherty [Opens in a new window]  and
E. Scott Adler
David Doherty*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago, 1032 W. Sheridan Road, Coffey Hall, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL60660, USA
E. Scott Adler
Affiliation:
Political Science Department, University of Colorado – Boulder, Boulder, CO80309, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: ddoherty@luc.edu
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Keywords

Replicationresearch designsurvey experimentfield experimentnegative advertisingturnout

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Journal of Experimental Political Science , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Summer 2020 , pp. 150 - 155
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© The Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2019

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There are no conflicts of interest to report. The data, code, and any additional materials required to replicate all analyses in this article are available at the Journal of Experimental Political Science Dataverse within the Harvard Dataverse Network, at doi:10.7910/DVN/6FP9Z6.

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