Холодильник vs. телевизор? Экономическое голосование на выборах в Государственную думу РФ 2016 г
Journal: Вестник Пермского университета. Политология / Bulletin of Perm University. Political Science
Year: 2017

The project aims to test the concept of economic voting in the 2016 Duma elec-tions in Russia. The key idea is to find an explanation how the changes in the standard of living over the previous five years had affected the support for the “party of power”. According to the standard theory of economic voting, voters re-ward the government for economic growth and punish it for economic crisis. However, the accession of Crimea and the Ukrainian crisis have caused the opposite ef-fect: the rise of pa