The Research
2023
Our Spring 2023 focused on the May 6th municipal elections in several areas of Dallas County. This trial was smaller than our previous trials, and Captains consisted of community college students and the general public.​
2019
Turnout Nation: A Pilot Experiment Evaluating a Get-Out-The-Vote “Supertreatment”
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Donald P. Green
Columbia University
Oliver A. McClellan
Columbia University
February 7, 2020
Abstract: Prior to municipal elections in November 2019, the nonpartisan group Turnout Nation conducted a randomized evaluation of its “captain” model of promoting voter turnout, which focuses on contacts between people who belong to the same social network – friends, family, acquaintances, or neighbors. For each of 43 captains in four states, lists of socially proximal voters were randomly divided into target lists and control lists. Voters on the target lists were contacted by captains, often on multiple occasions and via live communication. Turnout was assessed using official voter records. Turnout rates are 13.2 percentage points higher in the randomly assigned treatment group than the randomly assigned control group, the largest intent-to-treat effect documented by an experimental GOTV study over the past two decades. This promising get-out-the-vote approach merits further research and development.
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2018
Turnout Nation created
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