Economics, Partisanship and Elections: Economic Voting in the 2010 UK Parliamentary and US Congressional Elections

Michael J. Brogan

Chapter 10 in The Legacy of the Crash, 2011, pp 179-197 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The outcome of the 2010 UK general election and the US midterm elections provided an unequivocal reminder of the impact of economic downturns on electoral politics. A vast literature on economic voting confirms that voters typically respond to economic fluctuations; they tend to reward incumbents for a good economy and punish them for a poor one (Lewis-Beck and Stegmeir, 2007). Though the reward–punish hypothesis is a common theme in the economic voting literature, there are limits to its application. It is unable to fully capture the dynamic in which voters select their party’s candidate regardless of economic performance (Campbell et al., 1960; Evans and Anderson, 2006; Gerber and Huber, 2009).

Keywords: Democratic Party; American Political Science Review; Republican Party; Vote Decision; Incumbent Party (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230343498_10

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