canvasser

Examples of canvassing

canvassing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

To some extent, this may reflect the relative visibility of doorstep as opposed to telephone canvassing.
First, we examine variables that parties may use when they set out to do canvassing or mobilization efforts.
A long tradition within political science examines the impact of party canvassing on voter participation.
Subjects were selected by neighbourhood canvassing of elderly residents age 60 and over through a quota sampling procedure.
And, most radically of all, the parties began to make extensive use of telephone canvassing.
Our analysis therefore serves as a baseline for studies of telephone canvassing in future elections.
The electoral culture inherited by the revolutionaries made no provision for declared candidates and contemporaries were equally wary of canvassing for votes.
These branches were grouped together into nineteen regional federations which oversaw the work of organizing lectures, canvassing constituents and distributing literature.
Traditional face-to-face canvassing had a statistically significant influence on the outcome of the 1997 general election.
However, in order to illustrate the work required, it is worth canvassing briefly two standard exempla of offense: insult and exhibitionism.
In most instances, telephone canvassing did not have a measurable impact on conversion rates.
The second, ' canvassing for votes ', is a picture of electoral bribery : a voter sees no problem in taking money from two different electoral agents.
While canvassing is the primary means of achieving the former, spending on leaflets, posters and election addresses also contributes to the latter.
What impact does telephone canvassing have on party support, and how does it compare to more traditional forms of local political activity?
Our results show that canvassing contributes to the local campaign effect, but it cannot account for all of it.
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