IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/rischp/978-3-032-19030-7_9.html

Disasters and the Framing of Trauma During an Election

Author

Listed:
  • DeMond S. Miller

    (Rowan University)

  • Sotirios Chtouris

    (University of the Aegean, Department of Sociology)

Abstract

With the 2024 United States’ Presidential election looming, Hurricane Helene’s landfall and catastrophic destruction during the 2024 American Presidential Campaign season, the devastation provided an opportunity for candidates for elected office to respond to natural disasters and other similar crises and lead under pressure. Action or inaction by leaders and elected officials can have an array of consequences for the survivors. Voters react to state and local government responses to disasters in efforts to lessen the trauma associated with the initial disaster and its cascading effects. This chapter highlights how political narratives that offer “hope” are often rewarded at the polls in an era of partisan polarization, in which government responses to trauma have become increasingly partisan (Marsh, The politics of trauma: Mass tragedies in polarized America. University of Notre Dame. Thesis, 2022). The significance of the consequences of political polarization, blame avoidance, and government responses is also discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • DeMond S. Miller & Sotirios Chtouris, 2026. "Disasters and the Framing of Trauma During an Election," Risk, Governance and Society,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:rischp:978-3-032-19030-7_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-19030-7_9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:rischp:978-3-032-19030-7_9. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.