does campaign contact influence individuals’ vote choices? an alternative approach

摘要: Analyses of local campaign effects are dominated by aggregate-level analyses constituency activity. Though individual-level data available on whether voters (or remember being) contacted parties during campaigns, their analysis is fraught with difficulties, not least the extent to which memory contact itself conditioned partly party allegiance, creating a circularity in impact vote choice. To some degree, this can be (and has been) dealt regression framework. However, does fully deal potential difficulties. Ideally, experimental approaches needed tease out definitively exposure individual’s election decisions. these present practical In paper, therefore, we utilise quasi-experimental difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods estimate at 2010 British General Election from data.