It's the government's fault! A cross-section study of economic voting in Denmark, 1990/93 |
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| Authors: | PETER NANNESTAD MARTIN PALDAM |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark;Institute of Economics, University of Aarhus, Denmark |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. The relationship between voters' support for the government and thirteen items tapping their evaluation of the economic situation is analyzed. One data set is collected under Conservative rule and another under Social Democratic rule. The answers are first aggregated into three factors. Two are egotropic: the economic situation of the family, and its unemployment situation. One is sociotropic: worry about the economic development in the country. The impact of the first is strongly significant, and greater than found in comparable studies. The impact of the second is mostly significant, while the impact of the third is the least reliable. We have thus found a clear case of pocketbook voting. |
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