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Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition
Retrospective voting is arguably one of the most important mechanisms of representative democracy, and whether or not the public holds the government accountable for its policy performance has been extensively studied. In this paper, we test whether retrospective voting extends to parties in the opp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2016.1243543 |
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description | Retrospective voting is arguably one of the most important mechanisms of representative democracy, and whether or not the public holds the government accountable for its policy performance has been extensively studied. In this paper, we test whether retrospective voting extends to parties in the opposition, that is whether and how parties’ past performance evaluations affect their vote, regardless of whether they were in government or in opposition. Taking advantage of a rich set of questions embedded in a representative German national elections panel, we update our knowledge on the retrospective voting mechanism by modeling retrospective voting at the party level. The findings indicate that the incumbent status is not the only criterion for retrospective voting, ultimately suggesting that both government and opposition parties can expect credit and blame for their conduct and this should provide some impetus for responsive performance of all parties. |
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spelling | pubmed-54073552017-05-15 Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition Plescia, Carolina Kritzinger, Sylvia J Elect Public Opin Parties Articles Retrospective voting is arguably one of the most important mechanisms of representative democracy, and whether or not the public holds the government accountable for its policy performance has been extensively studied. In this paper, we test whether retrospective voting extends to parties in the opposition, that is whether and how parties’ past performance evaluations affect their vote, regardless of whether they were in government or in opposition. Taking advantage of a rich set of questions embedded in a representative German national elections panel, we update our knowledge on the retrospective voting mechanism by modeling retrospective voting at the party level. The findings indicate that the incumbent status is not the only criterion for retrospective voting, ultimately suggesting that both government and opposition parties can expect credit and blame for their conduct and this should provide some impetus for responsive performance of all parties. Routledge 2017-04-03 2016-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5407355/ /pubmed/28515772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2016.1243543 Text en © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Plescia, Carolina Kritzinger, Sylvia Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition |
title | Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition |
title_full | Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition |
title_fullStr | Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition |
title_full_unstemmed | Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition |
title_short | Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition |
title_sort | retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for government and opposition |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2016.1243543 |
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