Guest Speaker: Kasper Hansen

Voting is a social act The Danish Turnout Project Is has long been perceived that social norms play a significant role to why people vote. Across a number of analysis and design we are consistent able to show that voting is indeed a social act. Over the last two local elections, the latest national parliamentary election and European parliament election we have collected the voting files for the Danish population. These files have been merged with highly reliable government issues data for the entire population (e.g. residence, family, households, hospitalization, geocodes, and all classics SES-variables) creating an individual panel of voting history across six years (four waves/elections). Through a number of Random Discontinues Designs (RDD) we look at the effect of e.g. becoming a parent, getting unemployed, becoming eligible and moving away home effect electoral turnout. We also apply large scale Get-Out-The-Vote field experiments to understand e.g. how individual mobilization spill-over to other household members. We apply different modes such as Door-to-Door, personalized SMS to cell phones, Postal letters and e-mails. Mostly working papers and a few out. Some of the papers can be found at the links below. www.kaspermhansen.eu/Work/AJE_Dahlgaard_et_al(2015).pdf www.cvap.polsci.ku.dk/forskning/publikationer/arbejdspapirer/2016/Text_M... www.cvap.polsci.ku.dk/forskning/publikationer/arbejdspapirer/2015/SMS_sp... www.kaspermhansen.eu/Work/Bhatti_Hansen_Wass_2016.pdf www.kaspermhansen.eu/Work/JEPOP_Bhatti&Hansen_2012_young.pdf