Dataset
Replication Data for: The Compleat Economic Voter in Belgium: Channels of Accountability in a Complex Multilevel Government System
Harvard Dataverse
2025
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/mn7zw9
Abstract
Recent literature has suggested that economic voting is a multidimensional concept, where valence is but one aspect of the compleat economic voter, along with economic policy position and patrimony, i.e., ownership of assets. Leveraging data from the 2019 Belgian election survey within a distinctive electoral context, this study makes two significant contributions: Firstly, it demonstrates multidimensional economic voting exists in a complex electoral setting, such as that of Belgium. Secondly, it reveals that regional economic development engenders conditional diverse dimensions of the compleat economic voter. In Flanders, a region that incentivizes liberal market competition, we find the emergence of high-risk patrimonial voters. In contrast, Wallonia, a region with strong industry protectionism, encourages valence and positional economics dimensions. These findings have implications for both the economic voting and the multilevel governance literatures.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Replication Data for: The Compleat Economic Voter in Belgium: Channels of Accountability in a Complex Multilevel Government System
- Creators
- Martin Okolikj - University of BergenMarc Hooghe - KU LeuvenMichael Lewis-Beck - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Dataset
- DOI
- 10.7910/dvn/mn7zw9
- Publisher
- Harvard Dataverse
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984791078402771
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