PA Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series – Dec 1st
December 1, 2017
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Join us on Friday, Dec 1st for our first Brown Bag Lecture Series. The event is hosted by UIC's Department of Public Administration.
Date: Dec 1, 2017 - 12PM
Title: Increasing Voter Turnout in Underrepresented Communities: Does the Message Matter?
Location: 2102 AEH
Summary: A problem for representative democracy is that voter turnout rates remain very low among younger and lower income citizens. While community-based nonprofits may help to address the voter participation gap, it remains unclear what kinds of nonpartisan messages lower income voters might find most persuasive. To answer this question, a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote field experiment was carried out in partnership with four nonprofits in low-income neighborhoods of Chicago in the weeks leading up to 2016 election. This presentation will highlight research results of that experiment, showing which messages are most effective.
Date posted
Nov 20, 2017
Date updated
Nov 20, 2017