Infrastructure Expansion, Tourism, and Electoral Outcomes

Adrian Mehic

No 1490, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the electoral impact of increased foreign tourism, using data from Croatia. Exploiting exogenous variation in travel times to coastal municipalities from improved road infrastructure, I show that foreign tourism reduces nationalist voting and increases the center-left vote share. This effect is partly due to manufacturing spillovers and demographic shifts within municipalities. Further complementing these findings, individual-level survey data indicates that workers within the hospitality sector are more likely to hold left-wing views. I further show that this is likely driven by economic concerns, rather than the diffusion of socially liberal views.

Keywords: Infrastructure; Tourism; Voting; Nationalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 F63 L83 O18 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2024-06-17
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-pol, nep-tra, nep-tre, nep-tur and nep-ure
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