A new field experiment suggests coproducing public services can amplify political voice among underrepresented citizens. Involving ethnic minority parents in their children's education increased the likelihood they would share policy preferences with politicians during citizen surveys, though it did not affect voting rates. The study found this effect was stronger for nonvoters than registered voters.
| Encouraging Political Voices of Underrepresented Citizens Through Coproduction: Evidence from a Randomized Field Trial was authored by Morten Hjortskov, Simon Calmar Andersen and Morten Jakobsen. It was published by Wiley in AJPS in 2018. |
