Early Voting and Campaign Mobilization Effects on Voter Turnout

This dataset supports research on the contingent effects of early voting laws and campaign mobilization on voter turnout. It includes individual-level panel data and county-level data to analyze the relationship between campaign contact, advertising volume, and early voting behavior. The specific row count, column count, and file formats are unknown.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between direct campaign contact and voter turnout via early voting using individual-level panel data.
• Model the effect of county-level campaign ad volume on early voting turnout.
• Investigate the conditional mobilizing effects of early voting laws under varying campaign mobilization conditions.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed research publication on voter turnout.
• Includes both individual-level panel data and aggregated county-level data for analysis.
• Dataset was last updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• The sample size, number of features, and specific data structure are not provided.
• The geographic and temporal coverage of the data is unspecified.
• The magnitude of campaign effects on early voting is described as small in the source study.

Provenance

Source

Brian Hamel's Dataverse repository.

Collection Method

Data collected for academic research on early voting and campaign effects, as described in the associated publication.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-13.