Between Low- and High-Salience Elections: The Effect of Text Messaging and Volunteer Telephone Calls on Turnout in the 2017 Norwegian Parliamentary Election

• In Event: Experiments on Elections and Engagement

Brief Overview

Voter mobilization study using text messages and live phone calls.

Experiments conducted in both a low-salience and a high-salience election.

Results indicate that effects depend on election salience, with larger effects in the low-salience election.

Authors

• Johannes Bergh, Institute for social research

• Dag Arne Christensen, Uni Research Rokkan Centre