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21 October 2009
Report on online townhalls...
What is the potential of the Internet to facilitate a connection between Members of Congress and their constituents? To tackle this question, Mike Neblo, Kevin Esterling and I, in collaboration with a small, terrific nonprofit in Washington, the Congressional Management Foundation, conducted a series of online townhalls in the Summers of 2006 and 2008. Our question: what impact did these townhalls have on political engagement, policy knowledge, views of the Member, and so on? These were field experiments, with subjects randomly sorted into "treatment" (participate in session) and "control" conditions. We got some pretty striking results, although that is all I am going to say for now, because we are officially releasing the report on Monday. I will put it up at 11am on Monday, and if you are media and would like an embargoed copy, drop me an e-mail. Meanwhile, here's the cover:
Posted by David Lazer at October 21, 2009 10:19 PM
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