Date of Award
Spring 2021
Degree Type
Open Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Economics, PhD
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Melissa Rogers
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Yi Feng
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Brian Hilton
Terms of Use & License Information
Keywords
climate, cost of voting, minority voting, natural disasters, political economy, voting behavior
Abstract
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.
DOI
10.5642/cguetd/212
ISBN
9798738632280
Recommended Citation
Hawk, Gary. (2021). The Effect of Natural Disasters on Minority Voter Turnout, 1990-2016. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 212. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/212. doi: 10.5642/cguetd/212