The Politics of Personal Crisis: How Life Disruptions Affect Political Participation

• In Event: I've Had Better Weeks: When Life Depresses Voter Turnout

Brief Overview

Do life-disrupting events increase or decrease someone's likelihood of participating in an election? We present new evidence from the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study.

Authors

• Jake Haselswerdt, University of Missouri-Columbia

• Jamila Celestine Michener, Cornell University