Motivated to vote? The effect of flooding on political participation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F24%3A00135165" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/24:00135165 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/disa.12606" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/disa.12606</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12606" target="_blank" >10.1111/disa.12606</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Motivated to vote? The effect of flooding on political participation
Original language description
This paper investigates changes in political participation following a disaster. Drawing from the electoral results and flood declarations following the 2010 flood in Slovakia, we constructed a dataset that illustrates when and how often each municipality was affected by disastrous conditions before the elections. The analysis revealed that experiencing a flood significantly increased the level of political participation in a municipality. However, the effect of flooding on elections is conditional. First, significantly higher turnout occurs only when a flood affects the municipality on election day. Second, repeated flooding before the elections does not change the overall participation rate. In contrast, it is the one-time, continuous extreme weather event that most mobilises voters. Third, only severely affected municipalities showed a significant turnout effect. Last, the timing variable is crucial in determining the impact of repetition and severity. This paper distinguishes between different kinds of flood events that can impact disaster behaviour.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Disasters
ISSN
0361-3666
e-ISSN
1467-7717
Volume of the periodical
48
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
1-23
UT code for WoS article
001083980400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85174204202