0 present participle of canvass
1 to try to get political support or votes, especially by visiting all the houses in an area:
2 to try to discover information or opinions by asking people:
3 to suggest an idea or plan to be considered:
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.
