ABSTRACT
Economic voting is a phenomenon that political scientists and economists can hardly overlook. There is ample evidence for a strong link between economic conditions and government popularity. However, not everything is that simple and this edited collection focuses on 'the comparative puzzle' of economic voting.
Economic Voting emphasises the importance of comparative research design and argues that the psychology of the economic voter model needs to be developed further.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |121 pages
Political institutions and economic voting
chapter |26 pages
Economics, politics, and the cost of ruling in advanced industrial democracies
How much does context matter?
part |95 pages
Voter heterogeneity and economic voting
part |78 pages
The changing economic voter
chapter |23 pages
From class voting to economic voting
Patterns of individualization of electoral behavior in Italy, 1972–1996