Florian Foos has worked with eight different political parties in five different countries carrying out field experiments to test what does and doesn't work in election campaigning. So I invited him on Never Mind The Bar Charts to talk about what both his research and that of others reveals.

Show notes

• How Much GOTV Mail is Too Much? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment by Adam Zelitzer and Donald P. Green
• Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout: How to Increase Voter Turnout by Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber: Amazon / Bookshop.org / Waterstones*
• How same-sex marriage campaigners won people over by finding common values.
• Abraham Lincoln's advice on winning campaigns by befriending rather than demonising people.
• Reasons to be sceptical of the impact of deep canvassing.
• Florian Foos on Twitter.
• Theme tune by Hugo Lee.
• Image by Nathan Copley from Pixabay.
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