CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Jahan, Miskat |
|---|---|
| Title | Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic on Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Comparative Study |
| Summary | This MA Thesis research study has explored the influence of COVID 19 pandemic on the voter turnout rate in the Parliamentary and Presidential elections under democratic and hybrid regime from 2020 to 2021. Quantitative research has been done in this paper while voter turnout rate in the last election of the countries studied has been subtracted from the voter turnout rate in the election during the COVID 19 epidemic to know the change in voter turnout rate. Simple linear regression model has been run to get the research result. Voter turnout rate is the outcome variable while new COVID 19 cases per million in the election week have been considered as the explanatory variable. Annual GDP growth, political equality index, and electoral autocracy have been controlled as the related variable. The interaction model has been employed for the better acceptance of the study result. The study findings add three points to the literature on Political Science. First, in the majority of the elections examined voter turnout has decreased. Second, with the increase of new COVID 19 cases per million in a week voter turnout decreases although the size of variance is smaller. Third, for the lower value of adjusted R2 significant relationship of the control variables with dependent and independent variables have not been found in the study. |
| Supervisor | Bogaards, Matthijs |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/jahan_miskat.pdf |
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