INCREASING THE ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION OF IMMIGRANTS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM FRANCE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pons, Vincent; Liegey, Guillaume
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12584
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 481-508
• 关键词: voter turnout; political responsiveness; ethnic diversity; field experiment; Social pressure; direct mail; integration; CITIZENSHIP; campaign; multiculturalism

摘要

Improving the political participation immigrants could advance their interests and foster their integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants without having any statistically significant effect on non immigrants, while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A post-electoral survey reveals that immigrants initially had less political information, which could explain the heterogeneous impact. Although the effect decays over subsequent elections, our findings suggest that voter outreach efforts can successfully increase immigrants' political participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns.