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
Terms of Use & License Information
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
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