The COVID-19 pandemic's effects on voter turnout.
COVID-19 outbreak
Italian municipalities
Mortality rate
Voter turnout
Journal
European journal of political economy
ISSN: 0176-2680
Titre abrégé: Eur J Polit Econ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101550054
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2022
Jun 2022
Historique:
received:
21
04
2021
revised:
30
10
2021
accepted:
04
12
2021
pubmed:
4
1
2022
medline:
4
1
2022
entrez:
3
1
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34975184
doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102161
pii: S0176-2680(21)00131-2
pmc: PMC8715663
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
102161Informations de copyright
© 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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