According to retrospective voting a bad economy hurts the incumbent party and vice versa. According to risk-aversion voting a bad economy favors the Democrats over the Republicans and vice versa. This paper provides a test of both theories and rejects risk-aversion voting
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0205-zSophis...
Given the severe shock of the 2008 economic crisis, this paper examines the relationship the relatio...
In this paper, a simultaneous equation model is employed to investigate the relative effects of: (1)...
According to retrospective voting, a bad economy hurts the incumbent party and vice versa. According...
This paper critically reviews the extensive literature on retrospective voting in response to econom...
Economic voting has been blamed for Bush’s loss in 1992, Carter’s loss in 1980, and attributed to Cl...
We study loss aversion in majority voting. First, we show a status quo bias. Second, loss aversion i...
Forthcoming, Electoral Studies Reevaluating the Sociotropic Economic Voting Hypothesis One of the ca...
Economic prosperity is the best recipe for an incumbent government to be re‐elected. However, the fi...
This paper studies how voter loss-aversion affects electoral competition in a Downsian setting. Assu...
This paper critically reviews the extensive literature on retrospective voting in response to econom...
Since the publication of Fiorina’s (1981) seminal work, studies of retrospective voting, especially ...
of the canonical causal claims in political science links individuals ’ evaluations of the national ...
It is well-known that a voter's retrospective economic evaluations influence vote choice. A classic ...
Rational partisan theory's exclusive focus on electoral uncertainty ignores the importance of p...
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0205-zSophis...
Given the severe shock of the 2008 economic crisis, this paper examines the relationship the relatio...
In this paper, a simultaneous equation model is employed to investigate the relative effects of: (1)...
According to retrospective voting, a bad economy hurts the incumbent party and vice versa. According...
This paper critically reviews the extensive literature on retrospective voting in response to econom...
Economic voting has been blamed for Bush’s loss in 1992, Carter’s loss in 1980, and attributed to Cl...
We study loss aversion in majority voting. First, we show a status quo bias. Second, loss aversion i...
Forthcoming, Electoral Studies Reevaluating the Sociotropic Economic Voting Hypothesis One of the ca...
Economic prosperity is the best recipe for an incumbent government to be re‐elected. However, the fi...
This paper studies how voter loss-aversion affects electoral competition in a Downsian setting. Assu...
This paper critically reviews the extensive literature on retrospective voting in response to econom...
Since the publication of Fiorina’s (1981) seminal work, studies of retrospective voting, especially ...
of the canonical causal claims in political science links individuals ’ evaluations of the national ...
It is well-known that a voter's retrospective economic evaluations influence vote choice. A classic ...
Rational partisan theory's exclusive focus on electoral uncertainty ignores the importance of p...
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0205-zSophis...
Given the severe shock of the 2008 economic crisis, this paper examines the relationship the relatio...
In this paper, a simultaneous equation model is employed to investigate the relative effects of: (1)...