Social mobilisation in partisan spaces

Peter John; Florian Foos; Christian Mueller; Kevin Cunninghham

doi:10.1086/710970

Social mobilisation in partisan spaces

Peter John, Florian Foos, Christian Mueller, Kevin Cunninghham

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Three decades ago Huckfeldt and Sprague hypothesised that partisan context constrains infor-mation sharing between neighbours. We develop their theory to identify implications for campaignmobilisation in homogeneous and mixed-partisan contexts. We argue that GOTV spillover effectsshould vary with the proportion of rival party supporters in a neighbourhood. Based on two sam-ples of households that were either included or excluded pre-random assignment from a street-levelGOTV experiment, we test this expectation of differential spillover effects. We estimate neigh-bourhood party preferences based on targeting data made available by the UK Labour Party. Wefind that spillover effects on party supporters are smaller in neighbourhoods that include largershares of rival party supporters. Rival partisans are mobilised in mixed partisan neighbourhoodswhere the probability of spillovers from mixed partisan households is higher. This paper extendsHuckfeldt and Sprague’s theory, and demonstrates the importance of social dynamics for parties’campaign. strategies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-30
Journal	JOURNAL OF POLITICS
Volume	0
Issue number	0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/710970
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 22 Apr 2020

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