Title: Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France

Type Dataset Pons, Vincent, Liegey, Guillaume (2018): Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DDCNEW

Authors: Pons, Vincent (Harvard Business School) ; Liegey, Guillaume (Liegey Muller Pons) ; Pons, Vincent (Harvard Business School) ; Liegey, Guillaume (Liegey Muller Pons) ;

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Summary

Improving the political participation of immigrants could advance their interests and foster their integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants without having any statistically significant effect on non-immigrants, while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A postelectoral survey reveals that immigrants initially had less political information, which could explain the heterogeneous impact. Although the effect decays over subsequent elections, our findings suggest that voter outreach efforts can successfully increase immigrants' political participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/DDCNEW

Subjects

• Social Sciences
• CESSDA: Elections

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: February 21, 2018
• Updated: July 27, 2022

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

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electronic resource