How Lasting is Voter Gratitude? An Analysis of the Short- and Long-Term Electoral Returns to Beneficial Policy
Dominant theories of electoral behavior emphasize that voters myopically evaluate policy performance and that this shortsightedness may obstruct the welfare-improving effect of democratic accountability. However, we know little about how long governments receive electoral credit for beneficial polic...
Main Authors: | Bechtel, Michael M., Hainmueller, Jens |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Wiley-Blackwell Pubishers
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70904 |
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