The Effect of Natural Disasters on Minority Voter Turnout, 1990-2016

<p>This paper studies four natural disaster categories--climatological, geophysical, hydrological, and meteorological--and their impact upon four elections--gubernatorial, House, President, and Senate--for the 1990-2016 time period in 3,113 US counties, excluding Alaska. The research focused on which natural disasters impacted minority voters--Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Two or more races; if disasters affected the individual elections. Natural disasters provide mixed results on US election outcomes depending upon disaster, election, and the minority group.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Economics, PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Hawk, Gary

Contributors dc:contributor

• Yi Feng
• Brian Hilton

• climate
• cost of voting
• minority voting
• natural disasters
• political economy
• voting behavior

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/212

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1231