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Politicians' Web town halls boost their approval ratings
By Andrew Noyes, CongressDaily, NextGov, 26 October 2009. "Lawmakers' Internet-based town hall meetings increase constituents' approval ratings for the politician, enhance citizen engagement in politics and ultimately impact the probability of participants voting for that member of Congress, according to a new Congressional Management Foundation report..."
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Last updated: 29 October 2009
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(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Written by, David Lazer, the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University; Michael Neblo, The Ohio State University; Kevin Esterling, University of California-Riverside and Kathy Goldschmidt, Congressional Management Foundation. With contributions by Collin Burden, Congressional Management Foundation, 2009. "The Internet is transforming our democracy, and has received much scholarly and popular
attention. Strikingly little attention, however, has been focused on how the Internet might facilitate and enable conversations between citizens and Members of Congress. This report aims to at least partially fill this deficit. To this end, we facilitated 20 online town hall meetings in 2006 with U.S. Representatives and one event in 2008 with a U.S. Senator, with a total number of participants in excess of 600..."
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