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The political effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Weimar Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; … - 2023
How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893-1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014307151
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The political effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Weimar Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; … - 2023
How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893-1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311628
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The political effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Weimar Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; … - 2023
How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893-1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014303164
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Voting and political participation in the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Reeves, James - 2020
This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … share received by Democratic candidates. Congressional districts that bore the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic also saw …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244757
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Voting and political participation in the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Reeves, James - 2020
This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … share received by Democratic candidates. Congressional districts that bore the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic also saw …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249235
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Pandemics and Political Development : The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany
Gingerich, Daniel; Vogler, Jan P. - 2020
Do pandemics have lasting consequences for political behavior? We address this question by examining the consequences of the most deadly pandemic of the last millennium: the Black Death (1347-1351). Our claim is that pandemics can influence politics in the long run if they impose sufficient loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014099500
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Pandemics change cities : municipal spending and voter extremism in Germany, 1918-1933
Brickle, Kristian - 2020 - Revised June 2020
This paper uses several historical data-sets from Germany to show that influenza mortality in 1918-1920 was correlated with (i) lower per-capita spending, especially on services consumed by the young, in the following decade and (ii) the share of votes received by extremist parties in 1932 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211163
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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Mansour, Hani - 2020
This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … share received by Democratic candidates. Congressional districts that bore the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic also saw …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827671
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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the Hiv/Aids Epidemic
Mansour, Hani - 2020
This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … share received by Democratic candidates. Congressional districts that bore the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic also saw …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829210
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Do Pandemics Shape Elections? Retrospective voting in the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in the United States
Abad, Leticia; Maurer, Noel - 2020
In 2020, many observers were surprised that the COVID-19 outbreak did not appear to have swung the election. Early returns showed little indication that harder-hit areas swung away from the incumbent GOP. In 1918, however, the United States also held an election in the middle of a devastating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094300