When the economy in a single country contracts, voters often punish the government. When
many economies contract, voters turn against their governments much less frequently. This …

To what extent do the institutions of presidentialism allow voters to hold governments
accountable? Powell and Whitten (1993) suggested that voter capacity to sanction is strong …

The Nordic Voter is the first book-length comparative analysis of voting behaviour in the five
Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. Leading scholars from …

The global financial crisis has challenged many of our most authoritative economic
ideologies and policies. After thirty years of reshaping the world to conform to the market …

Comparing performance between countries is both a theoretically and intuitively useful
yardstick for voters. Cross-national comparisons provide voters with heuristics that are less …

One of the stories that Jacques Thomassen is known to have related more than once, and
which is therefore probably of some significance, is about how his 1976 dissertation Kiezers …

Abstract Throughout Enrique Peña Nieto's administration and during the 2018 presidential
campaign, three problems stood out among the Mexican electorate: the limited economic …

Durante la administración de Enrique Peña Nieto y la campaña presidencial de 2018
resaltaron tres problemas entre el electorado mexicano: un limitado crecimiento económico …

Ein interessanter theoretischer Ansatz: Rauh interpretiert die mit verschiedenen
Argumentationsfiguren arbeitenden Negativkampagnen anhand der Principal-Agent …

Accounts of general election outcomes increasingly talk about voters comparing parties in
terms of their perceived competence to manage the economy and public services. This …