Voting Behavior in the Aftermath of Earthquakes in Turkey
(2024) SIMZ41 20241Graduate School
- Abstract
- In democracies, elections are events in which the public evaluates not only the promises for the coming years, but also the actions of the past period. When an incident adversely affects the welfare of all or part of a society, such as an economic crisis or a natural disaster, the general expectation according to the retrospective voting theory is that society will punish those responsible through elections. However, the incumbents in Turkey were reelected only 3 months after the deadly earthquakes in 2023. In this study, by conducting semi-structured in-depth interviews in Hatay province, which received the most severe damage, I conclude that people’s voting behaviors in reelecting incumbents were largely affected by the role of the... (More)
- In democracies, elections are events in which the public evaluates not only the promises for the coming years, but also the actions of the past period. When an incident adversely affects the welfare of all or part of a society, such as an economic crisis or a natural disaster, the general expectation according to the retrospective voting theory is that society will punish those responsible through elections. However, the incumbents in Turkey were reelected only 3 months after the deadly earthquakes in 2023. In this study, by conducting semi-structured in-depth interviews in Hatay province, which received the most severe damage, I conclude that people’s voting behaviors in reelecting incumbents were largely affected by the role of the state, the ideas it spread, and the aid it provided in return of votes. (Less)
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- author
- Ahmadli, Sanan LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMZ41 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- #votingpreferences, #votingbehavior, #disaster, #turkey, #election
- language
- English
- id
- 9163582
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-26 12:30:49
- date last changed
- 2024-06-26 12:30:49
@misc{9163582, abstract = {{In democracies, elections are events in which the public evaluates not only the promises for the coming years, but also the actions of the past period. When an incident adversely affects the welfare of all or part of a society, such as an economic crisis or a natural disaster, the general expectation according to the retrospective voting theory is that society will punish those responsible through elections. However, the incumbents in Turkey were reelected only 3 months after the deadly earthquakes in 2023. In this study, by conducting semi-structured in-depth interviews in Hatay province, which received the most severe damage, I conclude that people’s voting behaviors in reelecting incumbents were largely affected by the role of the state, the ideas it spread, and the aid it provided in return of votes.}}, author = {{Ahmadli, Sanan}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Voting Behavior in the Aftermath of Earthquakes in Turkey}}, year = {{2024}}, }