Assessing the magnitude of the economic vote over time and across nations

Electoral Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 528-547

  Duch, Raymond M ^a   Stevenson, Randy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Cross national; Economic vote; Methodology; Multi level; Retrospective; Survey analysis; Vote

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIZATION; ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SURVEY; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33748166484     PISSN: 02613794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2005.06.016     Document Type: Article

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