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Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France

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  • Vincent Pons
  • Guillaume Liegey

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Improving the political participation of 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.

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  • Vincent Pons & Guillaume Liegey, 2019. "Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(617), pages 481-508.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:econjl:v:129:y:2019:i:617:p:481-508.
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    1. Vincent Pons & Vestal Mcintyre, 2020. "Ground work vs. social media: how to best reach voters in French municipal elections?," Post-Print halshs-02515651, HAL.
    2. Pereira dos Santos, João & Tavares, José & Vicente, Pedro C., 2021. "Can ATMs get out the vote? Evidence from a nationwide field experiment," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    3. Enrico Cantoni & Vincent Pons, 2021. "Do interactions with candidates increase voter support and participation? Experimental evidence from Italy," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(2), pages 379-402, July.
    4. Vincent Pons & Vestal Mcintyre, 2020. "Ground work vs. social media: how to best reach voters in French municipal elections?," Institut des Politiques Publiques halshs-02515651, HAL.

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