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Government mass mobilization
Governments can promote mass mobilization to support the causes they promote. Many governments attempt to mobilize the population to participate in elections and other voting events. The degree of mobilization of voters done by political parties is an important explanatory factor for a higher voter turnout. As a matter of fact, studies find that political parties who do not follow mobilizing techniques face a lower voter turnout, because mobilizing is found to induce new voters. Politicians are strategic with mobilizing big masses as their incentive is to maximise the voter returns. With mass mobilization, politics become a component of people's lives, which in return increases the voter turnout. Mass mobilization done by the political parties also creates incentives for political participation to voters. Futhermore, some studies count mobilization as a form of political participation of the voters since political parties often invite voters to mobilise in masses to be able to influence the government.

United States
United States history shows the trends in the relationship between mass mobilization encouraged by political parties and the voter turnout. Between 1890s and 1920 the voter turnout followed a generally declining rate, but the voter turnout started increasing firmly from 1928 to 1940 mainly because the Great Depression gave led to a mass mobilization trend in the country. This period of time was identified with demonstrations and strikes done by the people who lost their jobs or the workers, which made politics a part of people's daily life. The process of politics existing in everyone's daily life was reinforced by several factors. For instance, Congress of Industrial Organizations, as a political actor, played a big role in this by organizing unions to give the labour force political power and thus, the voter turnout increased during these times. The same trend proceeded during 1948-1968 since civil-rights movements dominated this period. There was a higher voter turnout observed during this period same as 1928-1940 due to mass mobilization.

USSR

Soviet Russia actively mass mobilised people through different channels such as rallies, the media and posters and even in the form of art. Starting a revolution required people to be informed. Therefore, they used mass media and cultural venues like theatres to transfer ideologies to the public and as a matter of fact, on December 1928, a resolution was passed by the Central Committee which required all published material, such as books and newspapers, to be a mechanism of mass mobilization that informs people about the doctrine of the state. Furthermore, Stalin often addressed a big amount of people in big rallies.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom has a recent example of mobilization of voters during the Brexit referendum. In the United Kingdom the percentage of young people participating in elections has been declining over the years. Therefore, an online-offline campaign called "#Votebecause" was initiated to encourage young people to vote in 2016 referendum, and to take part young people were asked to post a photo of them holding a banner stating their reason to vote.