A Tale of Two Railroads: Environmental Issues and Voting Behavior in the Russian North

• In Event: Political Psychology & Voter Perceptions

Brief Overview

This paper examines the effects of environment-driven political action on protest voting, focusing on landfills. We show that proximity to a politically salient landfill is associated with increased protest voting.

Authors

• Yaroslav Snarski, National Research University Higher School of Economics

• Sergei Utkin, HSE University

• Evgeny Sedashov, HSE University