The aim of this article is to survey the huge literature that has emerged in the last four
decades following Nordhaus's (Rev Econ Stud 42 (2): 169–190, 1975) publication on 

▪ Abstract The predominant normative justification for research on economic voting has been
its essential role in shaping democratic accountability. A systematic examination of this 

Since Beck, Katz, and Tucker (1998), the standard method for modeling time dependence in
binary data has been to incorporate time dummies or splined time in logistic regressions 

Using decades of public opinion data from the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Canada, and
distinguishing between three concepts-issue ownership, performance and generalised 

Are citizens competent to assess the performance of incumbent politicians? Observational
studies cast doubt on voter competence by documenting several biases in retrospective 

Recent electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, List Pim Fortuyn in The
Netherlands, the People's Party in Denmark and the National Front in France have 

This study demonstrates that in a time of massive change characterized by the emergence of
entirely new political systems and a fundamental reorganization of economic life, systematic 

In this paper, I develop a career concerns model of government policy choice within a
dynamic optimal stopping framework to predict the degree of surfing (opportunistic timing) 

Most formal models of valence competition add a single, separable and unweighted
component to the standard one-dimensional utility function of voters. This article presents 

Endogenous election timing allows leaders to schedule elections' when the time is right'.
The author proposes and tests an informational theory of endogenous election timing that