ArticleEuropean journal of political economy2022
The COVID-19 pandemic's effects on voter turnout.
Article in European journal of political economy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?European journal of political economy · 2023Article
- Does expert information affect citizens' attitudes toward Corona policies? Evidence from Germany.European journal of political economy · 2023Article
- Voting, contagion and the trade-off between public health and political rights: Quasi-experimental evidence from the Italian 2020 polls.Journal of economic behavior & organization · 2022Article
- Communicating safety precautions can help maintain in-person voter turnout during a pandemic.Electoral studies · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so by exploiting the variation among municipalities in the intensity of the COVID-19 outbreak as measured by the mortality rate among the elderly. We find that a 1 percentage point increase in the elderly mortality rate decreased the voter turnout by 0.5 percentage points, with no gender differences in the behavioural response. The effect was especially strong in densely populated municipalities. We do not detect statistically significant differences in voter turnout among different levels of autonomy from the central government.
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