The Effect of Economic Events on Votes for President: 1984 Update

Ray Fair ()

No 2222, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In previous work I have developed an equation explaining votes for president in the United States that seems to have a remarkable predictive ability. In this paper the equation is updated through the 1984 election and then used to predict the 1988 election.

Date: 1987-04
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Published as Political Behavior, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 168-179, (1988).

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