Doors and Perceptions: Motivations, Beliefs, and the Returns to Canvassing

• In Event: Models of Elections and Voter Turnout

Brief Overview

I propose a formal model of door-to-door canvassing to understand the relationship between the motivation of activists and the information they transmit to voters. I derive implications for the empirical measurement of the returns to canvassing.

Author

• Clement Minaudier, University of Vienna