Mobilizing Inclusion

Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns

Melissa R Michelson author Lisa García Bedolla author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Yale University Press

Published:9th Oct '12

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Mobilizing Inclusion cover

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities—and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others don’t.

Exploring and comparing a wide variety of efforts targeting ethnoracial voters, Lisa García Bedolla and Melissa R. Michelson present a new theoretical frame—the Social Cognition Model of voting, based on an individual’s sense of civic identity—for understanding get-out-the-vote effectiveness.  Their book will serve as a useful guide for political practitioners, for it offers concrete strategies to employ in developing future mobilization efforts.

Winner of the 2013 Best Book Award -- Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. -- Best Book Award * American Political Science Association *
“A detailed account.”—Choice * Choice *
Winner of the 2013 Ralph Bunche Award given by the American Political Science Association. -- Ralph Bunche Award * American Political Science Association *

ISBN: 9780300166781

Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 19mm

Weight: 454g

304 pages