When the election rains out and how bad weather excludes marginal voters from turning out

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Mobilization/Turnout

Brief Overview

Empirical research paper contributing with improved evidence on the causal influence of Election Day weather, particularly the rainfall effect, on turnout modeled, for the first time, at the level of 4.5 million individual eligible voters over time.

Authors

• Søren Damsbo-Svendsen, University of Copenhagen

• Kasper M. Hansen, University of Copenhagen