Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Department of Political Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2022 Jun 3;17(6):e0268640. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268640. eCollection 2022.
Reform efforts to improve turnout typically focus on reducing the costs of participation or strengthening appeals to civic duty. While these efforts generate modest effects, this paper explores whether citizens might respond to extrinsic rewards to encourage voting. We conduct a field experiment offering lottery prizes to undergraduate students in conjunction with a student government election at a major public university. We find that extrinsic rewards appear to boost voting significantly in these low turnout elections and that the effects of a lottery appear to be especially strong among those of lower socio-economic status.
改革措施旨在提高投票率，通常侧重于降低参与成本或增强公民责任感。虽然这些措施产生了一定效果，但本文探讨了公民是否可能对外部奖励做出反应，以鼓励投票。我们在一所主要公立大学的学生政府选举中，对本科生进行了一项实地实验，提供彩票奖品。我们发现，外部奖励似乎显著提高了这些低投票率选举中的投票率，而且彩票的效果在社会经济地位较低的人群中尤为明显。
