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Gillespie, Andra Nicole.

Community, coordination and context: A black politics perspective on voter mobilization.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Community, coordination and context: A black politics perspective on voter mobilization.
Author:	Gillespie, Andra Nicole.
Description:	204 p.
Notes:	Director: Donald P. Green.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 1142.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3168894
ISBN:	9780542048517

Community, coordination and context: A black politics perspective on voter mobilization.
Gillespie, Andra Nicole.

Community, coordination and context: A black politics perspective on voter mobilization. - 204 p.

Director: Donald P. Green.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

I begin Part I (Chapters 1 and 2) with a discussion of community. In these chapters, I problematize the notion of voting as a collective act. I suggest that there are conceptual limits to the notion that mobilization works because canvassers remind voters of their civic duty. In particular, I argue that voters accept or reject mobilization pleas depending on their perceptions of the person requesting their participation.

ISBN: 9780542048517Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Community, coordination and context: A black politics perspective on voter mobilization.
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520 # $a I begin Part I (Chapters 1 and 2) with a discussion of community. In these chapters, I problematize the notion of voting as a collective act. I suggest that there are conceptual limits to the notion that mobilization works because canvassers remind voters of their civic duty. In particular, I argue that voters accept or reject mobilization pleas depending on their perceptions of the person requesting their participation.
520 # $a I then turn in Part II (Chapters 3 and 4) to a discussion of coordination. In Chapter 3, I review the experimental literature on voting, and I present evidence from three experiments in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New Jersey. Organizational and personnel considerations affected the outcomes of these experiments, and collectively, they demonstrate the importance of having sufficient, quality personnel working in an organized campaign. In Chapter 4, I recount a highly disorganized voter mobilization campaign in Atlanta, Georgia, and I demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the effort in increasing voter turnout.
520 # $a In Chapter 7, I conclude with a practical discussion of how to improve voter mobilization. We know that canvassing works, but not all groups have the organizational capacity to immediately implement a thorough canvassing operation. In this chapter, I offer practical suggestions for helping groups develop the organizational structure to facilitate an effective mobilization effort.
520 # $a In Part III (Chapters 5 and 6), I shift my attention to a discussion of context. Mobilization goes a long way to improving voter turnout, but mobilization cannot fully overcome other, important systemic factors that depress turnout. In Chapter 5, I look at electoral competition, using Newark as a case study. In Chapter 6, I examine the utility of a common tactic that we commonly view as a proxy for voter mobilization. Many groups conduct voter registration drives as part of a mobilization strategy. Again, using Newark as my example, I demonstrate that voter registration alone does not mobilize voters.
520 # $a In this dissertation, I corroborate the experimental literature that says that canvassing increases turnout. However, using qualitative and empirical data, I also demonstrate that mobilizing organizations get bogged down in the mire of their less than conducive organizational structures and procedures. This limits the ability of even the best-intentioned mobilizing organizations to increase turnout, as groups either engage in unorganized (and ineffective) canvassing or adopt less than optimal voter contact strategies.
520 # $a The United States has witnessed a decline in voter turnout as education and income levels have risen. Declining mobilization activity seems to be part of the problem. Experimental work indicates that door-to-door canvassing is the best method to stem the tide of declining turnout. However, efforts to mobilize are hampered by the inability of voter mobilization organizations to recruit enough quality volunteers to canvass. Mobilization efforts are further hampered by perpetually uncompetitive districts and a focus on electoral activities that produce few voters.
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