Abstract

The aim of the paper is to analyze the 2020 Czech regional elections held after the most intensive phase of the election campaign occurred during an unprecedented outbreak of new COVID-19 cases. Shortly after the elections, the Czech government of premier Andrej Bahis officially announced a state of emergency, and the Czech Republic became one of the world’s COVID-19 hardest-hit countries within a few weeks. Our analysis focuses especially on trends in the association between the 7-day incidence of COVID-19 and voter turnout between September 19 and November 14 at the level of 206 Czech microregions. While our results show a considerable rise in COVID-19 incidence per 100,000 people in Czech microregions with higher turnout, this effect was partly modified by age as the rise of COVID-19 in microregions with older populations occurred much later.

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Title
The 2020 Czech Regional Elections in the Shadow of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Electoral Participation in the Spread of the Pandemic
Author
Maškarinec, Pavel 1 ; Klimovský, Daniel 2 ; Novotný, Lukáš 1 ; Bláha, Petr 1 

 Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic 
 Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia 
Pages
75-93
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
ISSN
13379038
e-ISSN
13384309
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3064271795
Copyright
© 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.