The economy and voting

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 616-640

  Gavin, Neil T ^a   Sanders, David ^a  

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EID: 0031256758     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028760     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. See D. Sanders, 'Economic Performance, Management Competence and the Outcome of the Next Election', Political Studies 44, 1996.
2. For a useful guide to the respective theoretical strands, see D. Denver and G, Hands, Issues and Controversies in British Electoral Behaviour (Harvester and Wheatsheaf, 1992), p. 241. See also M. Lewis-Beck, Economics and Elections (University of Michigan Press, 1990).
3. For a useful guide to the respective theoretical strands, see D. Denver and G, Hands, Issues and Controversies in British Electoral Behaviour (Harvester and Wheatsheaf, 1992), p. 241. See also M. Lewis-Beck, Economics and Elections (University of Michigan Press, 1990).
4. In recent studies, the comment by politicians tend to be excluded from analysis, the assumption being that the public see politicians as self-serving and less than trustworthy source, and so lack persuasive power - see D. Sanders, D. Marsh and D. Ward, 'The Electoral Impact of Press Coverage of the Economy, 1979-87', British Journal of Political Science 23, 1993; and N.T. Gavin and D. Sanders, 'Economy, News and Public Opinion: Britain in the Mid-1990s' in N.T. Gavin (ed.), Economy, Media and Public Knowledge (Cassell, forthcoming).
5. In recent studies, the comment by politicians tend to be excluded from analysis, the assumption being that the public see politicians as self-serving and less than trustworthy source, and so lack persuasive power - see D. Sanders, D. Marsh and D. Ward, 'The Electoral Impact of Press Coverage of the Economy, 1979-87', British Journal of Political Science 23, 1993; and N.T. Gavin and D. Sanders, 'Economy, News and Public Opinion: Britain in the Mid-1990s' in N.T. Gavin (ed.), Economy, Media and Public Knowledge (Cassell, forthcoming).
6. See the studies cited in note 3, as well as W.J. Severin, Communication Theories (Longman, 1988).
7. A term elaborated in D. Butler and D. Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1992 (Macmillan, 1995).
8. For details of the coding scheme see N.T. Gavin and D. Sanders, 'The Impact of Television News on Public Perceptions of the Economy and Government, 1993-94' in D. Farrell, D. Broughton, D. Denver and J. Fisher (eds), British Elections and Parties Yearbook, 1996 (Frank Cass, 1996), p. 68.
9. N.T. Gavin, 'Television News and the Economy: The Pre-Campaign Coverage', Parliamentary Affairs 45, 1992.