Improving Political Communication: Results from a Pilot Field Experiment in Pakistan

About the Authors

Miriam Golden

Professor of Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Research Pakistan (CERP)

Saad Gulzar

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University

Luke Sonnet

Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles

  • Posted On: March 28, 2017

This project provides politicians in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province useful tools to gather actionable information about voter preferences over public goods and, reciprocally, provides voters high-value information about upcoming policy decisions.

The project is aimed at establishing potentially durable feedback linkages between voters and elected representatives that gives politicians more information about voter preferences, thereby allowing them to be more responsive. Improved responsiveness, in turn, potentially increases the likelihood of reelection for politicians who operate in a political environment that is highly unpredictable and characterized by disadvantages for the incumbent party.

This study was funded by the International Growth Centre (IGC) in 2017.

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