Economic Vote - How Political and Economic Institutions Condition Election Results

Klappentext The book explains how different political and economic circumstances account for the variation in the economic vote. Zusammenfassung The book explains how different political and economic circumstances account for the variation in the economic vote. Based on the analysis of 165 public opinion surveys from 19 countries! the authors demonstrate that their explanations are empirically sound. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Describing the Economic Vote in Western Democracies: 2. Defining and measuring the economic vote; 3. Patterns of retrospective economic voting in western democracies; 4. Estimation, measurement, and specification; Part II. A Contextual Theory of Rational Retrospective Economic Voting: Competency Signals: 5. Competency signals and rational retrospective economic voting; 6. What do voters know about economic variation and its sources?; 7. Political control of the economy; Part III. A Contextual Theory of Rational Retrospective Economic Voting: Strategic Voting: 8. Responsibility, contention, and the economic vote; 9. The distribution of responsibility and economic voting; 10. The pattern of contention and the economic vote; Part IV. Conclusion and Summary: 11. Conclusion.

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• Autori: Raymond M. Duch, Raymond M. (University of Oxford) Stevenson Duch, Raymond M. Stevenson Duch, Randolph T. Stevenson
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521707404
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70740-4
• Pagine: 418
• Serie: Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Instituti
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva