What an Ungrateful Lot They Are: The Electoral Impact of Federal Budgets

Brent Davis

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that major fiscal policy announcements, in the form of the annual Budget, has a major and lasting impact on voter support for the incumbent government. Rather, reforming governments can ignore the media hysteria that they are 'electorally doomed' given voter's seeming short memory of such events.

Keywords: economic voting; fiscal policy; voter behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-08-20
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