Down with Covid: patterns of electoral turnout in the 2020 French local elections

Haute, Tristan; Kelbel, Camille; Briatte, François; Sandri, Giulia

doi:10.1080/17457289.2021.1924752

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“…Interest in politics and occupation also play here a stronger role than in the first round. As suggested by Haute and colleagues ( 2021 ), the pandemic context may have reinforced the social inequalities of political participation. 7…”

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“…This unprecedented event offers an interesting quasi-experimental setting for measuring the impact of an external shock such as the global public health crisis and its political communication challenges on voting behaviour. Recent and preliminary studies have started using this opportunity and have shown that the pandemic caused either a rally round-the-flag effect, with massive electoral support for incumbents, or massive abstention (Brouard and McAvay 2020 ; Haute et al 2021 ).…”

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Political information consumption and electoral turnout during COVID: the case of the 2020 municipal elections

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The effects on political participation of the consumption of political information from traditional and digital media are widely addressed in the literature. However, what happens in times of pandemic when people have other pressing concerns that are likely to receive significant media coverage? Does the consumption of political information—which increases in times of pandemic—mobilize or rather demobilize voters in local elections? By focusing on the two rounds of the French municipal elections in March and June 2020, we explore how the pandemic affected turnout through the consumption of political information distributed by official news media and users on social media during the first peak of the crisis (March 2020) and during the first period of decline in contagion rates (June 2020). Our results show that the association between consumption of political information and participation is detectable but remains less relevant than traditional predictors of turnout such as socio-demographic variables or an interest in politics. Moreover, we show that the strength of the effect of consumption of political information varies according to both the type of election and the type of political information consumption (local or national news, online or offline). Overall, it seems that the pandemic context had little effect on the relations between political information consumption and electoral participation.

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“…The latest global phenomenon that the entire world population has been experiencing, that is COVID-19 totally fulfils all the characteristics of a socially relevant topic as it brings profound social consequences due to several factors, for example, mass quarantine (Chu et al, 2020), it (a) concerns different social institutions from the police (Frenkel et al, 2021) to families (Thomeer et al, 2020), it (b) touches on a diverse set of social categories from migrants (Knights et al, 2021) to the elderly (da Rocha et al, 2021), it (c) impacts elections in several countries (Haute et al, 2021;James, 2021), it (d) feeds the hotbed of discussion on a wide range of contemporary issues from euthanasia (Salinas Mengual, 2021) to environmental concerns (Sarkodie and Owusu, 2021) and (e) beyond being considered a pandemic phenomenon comparable to HIV (already considered by the literature as socially relevant) in terms of social weight, it is also considered to affect the spread of HIV because of prolonged lockdowns in countries with high HIV rates (Dorward et al, 2021). Finally (f) COVID-19 has been a cross-cutting phenomenon studied with unmatched intensity across different academic domains (Else, 2020).…”

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How emotions from content social relevance mediate social media engagement: evidence from European supermarkets during the COVID-19 pandemic

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the antecedents of consumer engagement with supermarkets' social media accounts. Drawing on regulatory fit theory and social sharing of emotions theory, the authors test if the content posted on the social media brand pages of supermarkets dealing with a topic of high social relevance, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, stimulates social media consumer engagement and if and how the engagement is mediated by the arousal of positive and negative emotions.Design/methodology/approachThe authors retrieved data from the Facebook accounts of the top 20 European supermarkets identified in the Deloitte 2020 Global Powers of Retailing report during the first wave of the pandemic from 1 March to 30 June 2020, collecting a sample of 2,524 posts from 8 different countries. After a content analysis to classify COVID-19 content, the authors applied the Baron and Kenny (1986) methodology to verify the hypothesised relationships.FindingsThe findings highlight a positive direct relationship between the social relevance of a topic (COVID-19) and social media consumer engagement mediated by the arousal of positive and negative emotions.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the earliest empirical research using Facebook data to investigate the role of the social relevance of content as an antecedent of social media consumer engagement with a specific focus on supermarkets. The paper contributes to the stream of social media literature investigating the antecedents of social media engagement behaviour, exploring the role of topics' choice and aroused emotions, which to date are both under-investigated.

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“…Ces élections ont été marquées par une très faible participation dans la région : 32,84 % au premier tour et 33,18 % au second tour contre respectivement 54,81 % et 61,24 % lors du précédent scrutin, en décembre 2015. Alors que le scrutin s'est tenu en pleine crise liée à la Covid-19, cette démobilisation électorale, observé dans le reste du pays, mais encore plus importante dans les Hauts-de-France, n'a néanmoins pas été directement liée au risque sanitaire. Il n'y a ainsi pas eu, en juin 2021, de démobilisation plus importante des personnes âgées les plus à risque par rapport aux autres électeurs (Haute 2021), -contrairement à ce qui avait été observé lors des élections municipales de 2020 (Haute et al, 2021) -, ou encore des personnes non vaccinées ou hostiles à la vaccination. Si l'adhésion vaccinale est allée de pair avec une participation plus importante ( Jaffré 2021), ce résultat se vérifiait déjà pour de précédents scrutins (Ward et al 2020).…”

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Down with Covid: patterns of electoral turnout in the 2020 French local elections

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Political information consumption and electoral turnout during COVID: the case of the 2020 municipal elections

Political information consumption and electoral turnout during COVID: the case of the 2020 municipal elections

How emotions from content social relevance mediate social media engagement: evidence from European supermarkets during the COVID-19 pandemic

Élections régionales en Hauts-de-France, 20-27 juin 2021

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