Digging into the Pocketbook: Evidence on Economic Voting from Income Registry Data Matched to a Voter Survey
| Autor: | Erik Snowberg, Mikael Persson, Andrew Healy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Public economics Disapproval voting media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0506 political science Cardinal voting systems Personal income Economic data Political science Voting 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Survey data collection Registry data 050207 economics Group voting ticket media_common |
| Zdroj: | American Political Science Review. 111:771-785 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5943 0003-0554 |
| Popis: | To paint a fuller picture of economic voters, we combine personal income records with a representative election survey. We examine three central topics in the economic voting literature: pocketbook versus sociotropic voting, the effects of partisanship on economic evaluations, and voter myopia. First, we show that voters who appear in survey data to be voting based on the national economy are, in fact, voting equally on the basis of their personal financial conditions. Second, there is strong evidence of both partisan bias and economic information in economic evaluations, but personal economic data is required to separate the two. Third, although in experiments and aggregate historical data recent economic conditions appear to drive vote choice, we find no evidence of myopia when we examine actual personal economic data. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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