Voting and the Macroeconomy
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, pp. 565-586, Barry R. Weingast, Donald A. Wittman, eds., Oxford University Press, 2006
27 Pages Posted: 16 Nov 2008 Last revised: 23 Jan 2010
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Voting and the Macroeconomy
Date Written: January 19, 2010
Abstract
This paper applies a broad framework of analysis to review research on the impact of macroeconomic performance on aggregate voting outcomes.
Keywords: voting and macroeconomics, retrospective voting, prospective voting, competence voting models
JEL Classification: H19
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