The economic voter and economic crisis


Autoria(s): Dassonneville, Ruth; Lewis-Beck, Michael S.
Data(s)

28/07/2016

28/07/2016

01/10/2014

Resumo

Theories of economic voting have a long tradition in political science and continue to inspire a large group of scholars. Classical economic voting theory assumes a reward-and-punishment mechanism (Key, 1966). This mechanism implies that incumbents are more likely to stay in power under a good economy, but are cast out under a bad economy (Lewis-Beck and Stegmaier, 2000). The economy has repeatedly been shown to be a major determinant of electoral behavior (see especially the recent book by Duch and Stevenson, 2008), but the current economic crisis seems to provide a marked illustration of how the economy affects voting. In recent elections across the Western industrialized world, most ruling coalitions lost their majority. Opposition parties, on the other hand, whether right wing or left wing, have appeared to benefit from the economic downturn.

Identificador

Dassonneville, Ruth et Michael S. Lewis-Beck. 2014. "The economic voter and economic crisis". Acta Politica 49 (no 4) : 369-71.

http://hdl.handle.net/1866/14067

10.1057/ap.2014.21

Idioma(s)

en

Relação

Acta Politica;Vol.49 No 4

Palavras-Chave #Vote #Crise économique #Comportement électoral
Tipo

Article