Journal article
Economic voting in Latin America: A general model
Electoral studies, Vol.32(3), pp.489-493
09/2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.05.023
Abstract
Economics and elections have been much-studied in the highincome democracies of North America and Europe. However, little is known, especially comparatively, about economic voting in low-income democracies, such as those of Latin America. Here we offer the first comparative election study of the economic vote in this region. We apply a series of ever-more demanding statistical tests to an election survey pool of 12 Latin American nations, measured at three time periods (total N > 7000). Unambiguously, the finding is of highly significant, even strong, sociotropic retrospective economic effects on the incumbent vote. In Latin America, as in other democratic nations studied thus far, governments are rewarded or punished, according to the economic performance they command.
•We offer the first comparative election study of the economic vote in Latin America.•The sociotropic vote is highly significant in Latin American countries.•The economic voting effect in Latin America is stronger than generally supposed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Economic voting in Latin America: A general model
- Creators
- Michael S Lewis-Beck - Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USAMaria Celeste Ratto - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Electoral studies, Vol.32(3), pp.489-493
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.05.023
- ISSN
- 0261-3794
- eISSN
- 1873-6890
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2013
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984025656002771
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