ArticleEuropean journal of political economy2022
To vote, or not to vote? Electoral campaigns and the spread of COVID-19.
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 6 papers.
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- The toll of voting in a pandemic? Regional elections and the spread of COVID-19 in Bavaria.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Systematic literature review of postponed elections during COVID-19: Campaigns, regulations, and budgets.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Mass gatherings for political expression had no discernible association with the local course of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA in 2020 and 2021.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?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
- The COVID-19 pandemic's effects on voter turnout.European journal of political economy · 2022Article
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Abstract
The possibility to run fair electoral campaigns is necessary for the legitimization of modern democracies through elections. Yet, during a pandemic, the risk that electoral campaigns would enhance the spread of the disease is substantive. In this paper, we estimate the causal impact of electoral campaigns on the spread of COVID-19. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the schedule of local elections across Italy, we show that the electoral campaign preceding this latter led to a significant worsening of the epidemiological situation related to the disease. Our results strongly highlight the importance of undertaking stringent measures along the entire electoral process to minimize its epidemiological consequences.
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