Perception vs reality: how does the British electorate evaluate economic performance of incumbent governments in the post war period?
Rational retrospective voting models have dominated the literature on election forecasting and the economic vote since they were first proposed by Anthony Downs in 1957. The theory views voters as appraisers of incumbent government’s past performance, which acts as the principal source...
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University of Oxford
2016
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