Overseeing the Machine: Monitoring the Effort of Political Party Workers

• In Event: Party Intermediaries and Electoral Mobilization: Evidence from Brazil, Ghana, Mexico and Pakistan.

Brief Overview

Can monitoring by parties induce party workers to expend greater effort? Using a large-scale field experiment in Pakistan, I find that monitoring increases contact with male voters, but does not affect contact with female voters.

Author

• Asad Liaqat, Harvard University