Date of Award

Spring 2021

Degree Type

Open Access Dissertation

Degree Name

Economics, PhD

Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair

Melissa Rogers

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Yi Feng

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Brian Hilton

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Brian Hilton

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Rights Information

© 2021 Gary Hawk

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

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