Trauma and Turnout
The Political Consequences of Traumatic Events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3263129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wayde Z C Marsh (0000-0003-1079-867X, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 117 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1036-1052 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055422001010 |
| OpenAlex | W4311054166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 86 |
How do traumatic experiences shape individuals' political behavior? Political scientists have investigated the behavioral changes caused by natural disasters and terrorist attacks, but no work to date has investigated the political consequences of such events using the framework of psychological trauma. In this study, I develop a theory of posttraumatic political response that explains how traumatic events influence voter turnout. To test this theory, I identify the effects of three different types of traumatic events: Black church arson attacks, mass shootings, and natural disasters. I find that a traumatic event decreases turnout in the next presidential election by 0.5-3.7 percentage points, but Black social identity conditions this effect-church arsons and Hurricane Katrina mobilize Black voters. Finally, I find that closer temporal proximity to an election increases the likelihood of a mobilizing effect
Arson · Criminology · Event (particle physics · Geography · Natural disaster · Natural experiment · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Social group · Social identity theory · Terrorism · Turnout · Voting · Disaster Management and Resilience · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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Perceptions of government performance and collective trauma
When the Personal Becomes Political
The Cross and Conflict
Changing the Scope of Conflict? Voter Registration and George Floyd’s Murder
Racialized Surveillance and Voting
The resilience of local democracy
No One Mourns the Wicked
Mail Voting as a Tool to Avoid Voter Intimidation and Hate Crimes
You have to hug, nothing is going to happen”
Racial Attitudes and Views of Disaster
Fixed Effects, Lagged Dependent Variables, and Bracketing
Climate change and the farmer-Pastoralist's violent conflict
Navigating Fear and Resilience
The Invisible Impact of Conflict
Assessing the impact of Covid-19 on support for democracy in Brazil
Exogenous shocks and electoral outcomes
Shared Identity, Shared Experience, Social Mobilisation
Voices from the Pulpit
Proximity to riots
Between Withdrawal and Engagement
The Impact of Terrorism on Democratic Support in Africa
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy
Navigating Potential Pitfalls in Difference-in-Differences Designs
Trust After Tragedy
The Politics of Personal Crisis
Rising seas, rising concerns
Access to Healthcare and Voting
Religious Conversion and Political Incorporation
Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends
In the Eye of the Storm
The Rationalizing Voter
The Social Cure
Politics in the Pews
Posttraumatic Growth
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Difference-in-Differences with Variation in Treatment Timing
A National Survey of Stress Reactions after the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks
Psychological Reactions to Terrorist Attacks
Nationwide Longitudinal Study of Psychological Responses to September 11
Television Images and Psychological Symptoms after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
Post-Disaster Mental Health Problems and the Utilization of Mental Health Services
Catastrophic Politics
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Democracy for Realists
Everyone for themselves? A comparative study of crowd solidarity among emergency survivors
Politics and the Black Church in a Southern Community
Social Relations that Generate and Sustain Solidarity after a Mass Tragedy
Distribution of Traumatic and Other Stressful Life Events by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, SES and Age
The Black Church and Defining the Political
Political participation in a violent society
Civil Liberties vs. Security
Trajectories of Posttraumatic Stress Among Urban Residents
Analysis of Media Agenda Setting During and After Hurricane Katrina
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
Community identity and collective efficacy
The President and the Presidency
Retrospectives and Prospectives on Hurricane Katrina
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A Bracketing Relationship between Difference-in-Differences and Lagged-Dependent-Variable Adjustment
The Blame Game
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Do Officer-Involved Shootings Reduce Citizen Contact with Government
Do Shark Attacks Influence Presidential Elections? Reassessing a Prominent Finding on Voter Competence
Emergencies and the Presidency
Managing Disasters
Rallying Around the Flag and Partisan Change
Belonging and Doing
Personal and Political
Social Identity, Groups, and Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder
When Threat Mobilizes
A Healthy Democracy? Evidence of Unequal Representation Across Health Status
On the Use of Two-Way Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference with Panel Data
Disasters and Elections
Disaster Management in the United States
Not All Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter
Focusing Events, Mobilization, and Agenda Setting
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Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time‐Series Cross‐Sectional Data
Threat, Anxiety, and Support of Antiterrorism Policies
Make It Rain? Retrospection and the Attentive Electorate in the Context of Natural Disasters
Health and Voting in Young Adulthood
Trauma and the Politics of Emotions
After Disaster
Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy
Media Framing and Policy Change After Columbine
How to Make Causal Inferences with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data under Selection on Observables
Estimating the Electoral Effects of Voter Turnout
Black Voting During the Civil Rights Movement
African American Resiliency
Worlds Apart
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |