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978-0-521-86374-2 - The Economy and the Vote : Economic Conditions and Elections in Fifteen Countries - by Wouter Van Der Brug, Cees Van Der Eijk and Mark Franklin
Table of Contents



Contents



Preface page vii
  Introduction 1
1   Studying Economic Voting 8
2   Party Choice as a Two-Stage Process 31
3   Hypotheses and Data: The Theoretical and Empirical Setting 54
4   Effects of the Economy on Party Support 82
5   The Economic Voter 117
6   From Individual Preferences to Election Outcomes 137
7   The Economy, Party Competition, and the Vote 170
  Epilogue: Where to Go from Here in the Study of Economic Voting? 193
  Appendix A The Surveys Employed in This Book 201
  Appendix B Detailed Results Not Reported in the Main Text 207
References 219
Index 229



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