Economy and the Vote Economic Conditions and Elections in Fifteen Countries

Name: Economy and the Vote Economic Conditions and Elections in Fifteen Countries
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ISBN: 9780521682336

ISBN-10: 0521682339

ISBN-13: 9780521682336

Edition: 2007

Authors: Wouter van der Brug, Cees van der Eijk, Mark N. Franklin

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Economic conditions are said to affect election outcomes, but past research has produced unstable and contradictory findings. This book argues that these problems are caused by the failure to take account of electoral competition between parties. A research strategy to correct this problem is designed and applied to investigate effects of economic conditions on (individual) voter choices and (aggregate) election outcomes over 42 elections in 15 countries. It shows that economic conditions exert small effects on individual party preferences, which can have large consequences for election outcomes. In countries where responsibility for economic policy is clear, voters vote retrospectively and…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Wouter van der Brug is associate professor in methods for the social sciences at the Amsterdam School for Communications Research, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Science, the European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Party Politics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, West European Politics, and Acta Politica. He recently co-authored European Elections and Domestic Politics (with Cees van der Eijk, 2007).



Preface


Introduction



Studying Economic Voting



Party Choice as a Two-Stage Process



Hypotheses and Data: The Theoretical and Empirical Setting



Effects of the Economy on Party Support



The Economic Voter



From Individual Preferences to Election Outcomes



The Economy, Party Competition, and the Vote Epilogue: Where to Go from Here in the Study of Economic Voting?



The Surveys Employed in This Book



Detailed Results Not Reported in the Main Text


References


Index