Economics, politics and the pursuit of exogeneity: Why Pattie, Johnston and Sanders are wrong

Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 933-938

  Evans, Geoffrey ^a  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0039700022     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00239     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. G. Evans, 'Economics and politics revisited: exploring the decline in Conservative support, 1992-1995', Political Studies, 47 (1999), 151.
2. C. Pattie, R. Johnston and D. Sanders, 'On babies and bathwater: a comment on Evans' "Economics and politics revisited"', Political Studies, 47 (1999), 918-932 (hereafter PJS).
3. PJS, p. 919.
4. Evans, 'Economics and politics revisited', p. 139 (italics added).
5. PJS, p. 920.
6. W. Hutton, The State of the Nation (London, Vintage, 1995).
7. D. Sanders, 'Economic performance, management competence and the outcome of the next general election', Political Studies, 44 (1996), p. 223.
8. PJS, p. 921.
9. P. Converse, 'The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics', in D. Apter (ed.), Ideology and Discontent (New York, Free, 1964) and many other works that followed.
10. T. Holbrook and J. C. Garand, 'Homo economus? Economic information and economic voting', Political Research Quarterly, 49 (1996), 351-75.
11. D. Sanders and S. Price, 'Party Support and Economic Perceptions in the UK 1979-87: a Two-level Approach', in C. Rallings, D. M. Farrell, D. Denver and D. Broughton (eds), British Elections and Parties Yearbook, 1994 (London, Frank Cass, 1995), p. 59.
12. PJS, p. 922.
13. PJS, p. 922.
14. PJS, p. 922.
15. Evans, 'Economics and politics revisited', p. 149, table 6.
16. Lewin exposes these shortcomings thoroughly in his compact review of an increasingly sprawling area. L. Lewin, Self-interest and Public Interest in Western Politics (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991).
17. PJS, p. 931.
18. D. Sanders, 'Economic performance, management competence and the outcome of the next general election'.