Recent studies of economic voting have focused on the role of the local economy, but with
inconclusive results. We argue that while local economic conditions affect incumbent …

Considerable research shows the presence of an economic vote, with governments
rewarded or punished by voters, depending on the state of the economy. But how stable is …

This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how
these changes are linked to a growth in electoral volatility. Ruth Dassonneville's core …

This book tells the story of how the news media can help the inattentive members of the
public become better educated and knowledgeable 'economic citizens'. The authors argue …

The Great Recession is a non-trivial test bed for the theory of economic voting, especially if
its predictions are decomposed at the party level, as done in this article by analysing the …

Economic growth helps governments get re-elected. But does growth, as a valence issue,
exhaust the possibilities for the economic vote? This paper shows, via an examination of …

Theories of economic voting and electoral accountability suggest that voters punish
incumbent governments for poor economic conditions. Incumbents are thus expected to …

Recent decades have seen an electoral resurgence of radical right parties in Europe.
Despite their international reputations as gender-egalitarian welfare paradises, the Nordic …

Will voters hold an incumbent more electorally accountable for the quality of a policy
outcome if the incumbent's political responsibility for the underlying policy increases? To …

Election forecasting models based on voting theories and estimated via regression analysis
are routinely available for virtually all advanced industrial democracies. Denmark, however …