Bridging the Digital Divide Narrows the Participation Gap: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Abstract

We thank KnowledgePanel and Matthew DeBell of ANES for making available the information which respondents of the web survey had been furnished with free internet access. We acknowledge comments by Nicoletta Balbo, Valentina Rotondi, Luca Stella, the editorial team of Sociological Science (Ari Adut and an anonymous Deputy Editor), and participants of the 'Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology' (Florence) and the 'Akademie für Soziologie' meeting on 'Digital Societies.' Funding: This project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program (grant agreement no. 694262), project 'DisCont.'

Keywords

• political participation
• civic participation
• digital divide
• internet
• political inequality