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Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic?: Evidence from a natural experiment

Elections define representative democracies but also produce spikes in physical mobility if voters need to travel to polling places. In this paper, we examine whether large-scale, in-person elections propagate the spread of COVID-19. We exploit a natural experiment from the Czech Republic, which bia...

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Autores principales: Palguta, Ján, Levínský, René, Škoda, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34548754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00870-1