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All eyes on them : a field experiment on citizen oversight and electoral integrity
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0002-8282; 1944-7981
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American economic review, 2022, Vol. 112, No. 8, pp. 2631-2668
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GARBIRAS-DIAZ, Natalia, MONTENEGRO, Mateo, All eyes on them : a field experiment on citizen oversight and electoral integrity, American economic review, 2022, Vol. 112, No. 8, pp. 2631-2668 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75326
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Can information and communication technologies help citizens monitor their elections? We analyze a large-scale field experiment designed to answer this question in Colombia. We leveraged Facebook advertisements sent to over 4 million potential voters to encourage citizen reporting of electoral irregularities. We also cross-randomized whether candidates were informed about the campaign in a subset of municipalities. Total reports, and evidence-backed ones, experienced a large increase. Across a wide array of measures, electoral irregularities decreased. Finally, the reporting campaign reduced the vote share of candidates dependent on irregularities. This light-touch intervention is more cost-effective than monitoring efforts traditionally used by policymakers.
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Published online: August 2022