Flooding the vote: Hurricane Katrina and voter participation in New Orleans

American Politics Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 921-957

  Sinclair, Betsy ^a   Hall, Thad E ^b   Alvarez, R Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricane Katrina; mayoral election; New Orleans; political participation; turnout; voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961233806     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X10386709     Document Type: Article

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