Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe
Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February, 2021
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| author | Ward, George(Scientist in business management)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| author2 | Erin L. Kelly. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1307402022-11-21T16:20:31Z Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe Evidence from four decades of elections in Europe Ward, George(Scientist in business management)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Erin L. Kelly. Sloan School of Management. Sloan School of Management Sloan School of Management. Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February, 2021 Cataloged from the official PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-25). There is a growing interest among policymakers in the use of subjective well-being (or \happiness") data to measure societal progress, as well as to inform and evaluate public policy. Yet despite a sharp rise in the supply of well-being-based policymaking, it remains unclear whether there is any electoral demand for it. In this paper, I study a long-run panel of general elections in Europe and nd that well-being is a strong predictor of election results. National measures of subjective well-being are able to explain more of the variance in governing party vote share than standard macroeconomic indicators typically used in the economic voting literature. Consistent results are found at the individual level when considering subjective well-being and voting intentions, both in cross-sectional and panel analyses. by George Ward. S.M. in Management Research S.M. in Management Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management 2021-05-24T19:53:31Z 2021-05-24T19:53:31Z 2021 2021 Thesis 1251804810 eng MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 51 pages application/pdf e------ Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Sloan School of Management. Ward, George(Scientist in business management)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe |
| title | Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe |
| title_full | Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe |
| title_fullStr | Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe |
| title_short | Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe |
| title_sort | happiness and voting evidence from four decades of elections in europe |
| topic | Sloan School of Management. |
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