Improving Political Communication and Responsiveness: A Field Experiment in Pakistan

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Brief Overview

Using an experiment with 40 politicians in Pakistan, we study whether preference-eliciting robocalls improve political communication, change both voter and politician perceptions and behavior, and lay the groundwork for electoral accountability.

Authors

• Miriam Golden, UCLA

• Saad Ahmad Gulzar, Stanford University

• Luke Sonnet, University of California-Los Angeles