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The volume highlights how evolving issue agendas are changing the nature of political accountability in advanced industrialized democracies.
List of contents
- Foreword
- 1: Ryan E. Carlin, Jonathan Hartlyn, Timothy Hellwig, Gregory J. Love, Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo and Matthew Singer: Introduction: Instability and Government Popularity in the 21st Century
- 2: Ryan E. Carlin, Jonathan Hartlyn, Timothy Hellwig, Gregory J. Love, Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo and Matthew Singer: The Executive Approval Database: Conceptual and Empirical Bases
- 3: John Bartle, Sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda and Anthony McGann: Executive Approval in Great Britain: Continuity and Change
- 4: Emiliano Grossman and Isabelle Guinaudeau: The Cost of Ruling Above Anything Else: Explaining Presidential Popularity in France
- 5: Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Bruno Fernandes and Pedro C. Magalhães: The Economy and Executive Approval in a Semi-Presidential Regime: The Case of Portugal
- 6: Hanako Ohmura and Airo Hino: Economic Retrospection in Japan: Both Partisanship and Economic Evaluations Matter
- 7: Paolo Bellucci and Vincenzo Memoli: Government Popularity in Italy: From Valence to Positional Economic Accountability
- 8: Xavier Romero-Vidal, Lluís Orriols and Pedro Riera: Moving Beyond the Economy: Executive Approval in Spain
- 9: Éric Bélanger and Olivier Jacques: Federal Government Approval in Canada: Economics, Politics, and Fiscal Policy in Changing Times
- 10: Mark A. Kayser and Arndt Leininger: The Economy and Chancellor Approval in Germany: A Cautionary Tale about Data Vintages and Measures
- 11: Panos Koliastasis and John Yfantopoulos: Economic Crisis, Polarization, and Prime Ministerial Approval in Greece
- 12: Henrik Bech Seeberg: Diminishing Class Voting and Increasing Influence of the Economy on Executive Approval in Denmark, 1974-2016
- 13: Kathleen Donovan, Paul M. Kellstedt, Ellen M. Key and Matthew J. Lebo: Weakened Ties: The Economy and Presidential Approval in the 21st Century United States
- 14: Mary Stegmaier, Brandon B. Park and Michael S. Lewis-Beck: Economics, Politics, and the Popularity Function: Past, Present and Future
- 15: Timothy Hellwig and Matthew Singer: Executive Approval from the 1990s to the 2010s: A Pooled Analysis of Twenty Countries
About the author
Timothy Hellwig is Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway, Indiana University, and a member of the Executive Approval Project. He is co-author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession. (2020) and author of Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014). His research appears in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and other journals and edited volumes.
Professor Singer is the Alan R. Bennett Honors Professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, where he has taught since 2007, and he is a member of the Executive Approval Project. He is the co-editor of The Latin American Voter: Pursuing Representation and Accountability in Challenging Contexts (2015) and the author of numerous journal articles in Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and other journals and edited volumes. His 2018 Comparative Political Studies article was awarded the Seligson Prize for the best paper using data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project.
Summary
The volume highlights how evolving issue agendas are changing the nature of political accountability in advanced industrialized democracies.
