The economic vote
Subtitle: how political and economic institutions condition election results
By: Raymond M. Duch, Randolph T. Stevenson.
Contributors: Stevenson, Randolph T.
Series: Political economy of institutions and decisions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521881029; 9780521707404
Subjects: Voting -- Economic aspects; Elections -- Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Defining and measuring the economic vote; title: Patterns of retrospective economic voting in western democracies; title: Estimation, measurement and specification; title: Competency signals and rational retrospective economic voting; title: What do voters know about economic variation and its sources?; title: Political control of the economy; title: Responsibility, contention, and the economic vote; title: The distribution of responsibility and economic voting; title: The pattern of contention and the economic vote; title: Conclusion.