The effects of quality of life on national elections: A multi-country analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 347-362

  Hagerty, Michael R ^a   Naik, Prasad ^a   Tsai, Chih Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; LIVING STANDARD; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034071350     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007086621208     Document Type: Article

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36. Downs, George W and David M. Rocke: 1995, Optimal Imperfection? Domestic Uncertainty and Institutions in International Relations (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.).
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38. Fair, Ray C.: 1978, 'The effect of economic events on votes for president', The Review of Economics and Statistics 60(2), pp. 159-173.
39. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): 1995, Production Yearbook. On computer files (FAO, Rome).
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41. Katz, Richard S. and Peter Mair: 1992, Party Organizations: A Data Handbook on Party Organizations in Western Democracies, 1960-90 (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA).
42. Klandermans, Bert: 1989, 'Does happiness soothe political protest?', in Ruut Veenhoven (ed.), How Harmful is Happiness? (University Press, Rotterdam).
43. Kramer, Gerald H.: 1971, 'Short-term fluctuations in US voting behavior, 1896-1964', The American Political Science Review (March) 65, pp. 131-143.
44. Lance, Charles E., Alison G. Mallard and Alex C. Michalos: 1995, 'Tests of the causal directions of global-life facet satisfaction relationships', Social Indicators Research 34, pp. 69-92.
45. Li, Ker-Chau: 1991, 'Sliced inverse regression for dimension reduction (with discussions)', Journal of the American Statistical Association (June) 86(414), pp. 316-342.
46. Mackie, Thomas T. and Richard Rose: 1991, The International Almanac of Electoral History (Congressional Quarterly, Washington, D.C.).
47. Naik, Prasad A., Michael R. Hagerty and Chih-Ling Tsai: 1998, 'A new dimension reduction approach for data-rich marketing environments: Sliced inverse regression', Journal of Marketing Research, forthcoming.
48. Paldam, Martin: 1991, 'How robust is the vote function? A study of seventeen nations over four decades', in H. Norpoth, M. Lewis-Beck and J. Lafay (eds.), Economics and Politics: The Calculus of Support (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor).
49. Powell, G. Bingham Jr. and Guy D. Whitten: 1993, 'A cross-national analysis of economic voting: Taking account of political context', American Journal of Political Science 37(2), pp. 391-414.
50. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: 1995, SIPRI Yearbook 1995: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press, New York).
51. Veenhoven, Ruut: 1984, Conditions of Happiness (D. Reidel Publishing, Dordrecht, Netherlands).
52. Veenhoven, R.: 1993, Happiness in Nations: Subjective Appreciation of Life in 55 Nations 1946-1990 (RISBO, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Available by FTP).
53. Veenhoven, Ruut with the assistance of Joop Ehrhardt: 1995, 'The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness', Social Indicators Research 34, pp. 33-68.
54. World Bank: 1997, World Development Indicators (World Bank, Washington, D.C.).