We document that corporate financial misconduct has significant consequences for
politicians' election outcomes and, in particular, those politicians that serve on US 

Who benefits from deep economic crises: the left, the right or neither? On the basis of
evidence from elections in 1929–1933 and 2008–2013 in all states that were democracies 

This article examines the interplay between social risks, welfare state policies and far right
voting. Distinguishing between compensatory and protective policies and using data from 

Having joined the Eurozone in 2001, Greece experienced a short period of economic
euphoria before confronting a major financial crisis some nine years later. In the period 

The severity of the recent economic crisis in Europe provides an opportunity to test some of
the conventional hypotheses about the effects of economic adversity on election outcomes 

We argue that occupational unemployment rates, by informing perceptions of economic
insecurity, serve as a salient and powerful heuristic for aggregate economic performance 

It has been controversial whether incumbents are punished more for a bad economy than
they are rewarded for a good economy due to mixed results from previous studies on one or 

What is the relationship between electoral and economic performance? Previous literature
posits that poor economic performance hurts the incumbent at the ballot box because overall 

Economically vulnerable voters are expected to hold politicians accountable for their
management of the economy because these voters are more likely to be personally affected 

Extant literature documents the unequal representation of the interests of low-and high-
income groups in democracies. One potential explanation for this phenomenon is the