Open AccessVoting and civic engagement: Results from an online field experiment
Author(s) -
Seth H. Werfel
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
research and politics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.232
H-Index - 20
ISSN - 2053-1680
DOI - 10.1177/2053168017690736
Subject(s) - gratitude , voting , civic engagement , political science , priming (agriculture) , field (mathematics) , social psychology , identity (music) , voter turnout , public relations , psychology , law , politics , biology , mathematics , pure mathematics , physics , acoustics , germination , botany
How does voting interact with civic engagement outside the electoral process? An online field experiment on more than 140,000 registered voters in San Francisco yielded two main results. Subjects who voted in the 2016 primary elections were nearly three times more likely to open a survey from a nonprofit organization than those who did not vote in the primary election. However, explicitly priming voter identity and gratitude made all subjects far less likely to engage in this form of civic participation
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