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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hart, Austin (1983-....)
Titre(s) : Economic voting [Texte imprimé] : a campaign-centered theory / Austin Hart,...
Publication : New York : Cambridge university press, cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII- 219 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : The economic voting puzzle ; A campaign-centered theory of economic voting ; Can
ads prime the economy? How would we know? US 1992 ; The impact of a surge in economic
messages, Mexico 2006 ; The absent economic message, US and Mexico 2000 ; The campaign-centered
model in comparative perspective.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In this study I explain why economic voting is so widespread and, yet, why incumbents
so often win amidst economic downturns and challengers in boom times. I account for
the fact that some candidates drastically outperform the predictions of economic voting
models while others underperform. More than just accounting for seemingly anomalous
elections, I also explain the conditions under which incumbents win in good times
and lose in bad times. To do so, I deviate from the existing approach and develop
a campaign-centered theory that highlights the power of candidates to alter the strength
of the economic vote strategically. argue that the conventional wisdom fails for two
reasons. First, it leaves no room for political leadership. By contrast, I show that
candidates wield immense power over the strength of the economic vote via political
communication. Candidates and their strategists are not passive observers of a structurally-
determined political fate. Campaigners across the globe spend millions of dollars
crafting their communications strategy and honing a message that will make certain
issues salient in public discourse and shift others to the back burner. In short,
they battle to define what each election is about, and recent evidence suggests that
these efforts may be successful. One of the most important findings to come out of
the renewed interest in media and campaign effects in the last twenty years is that
political communications can "prime," or raise the salience of, certain issues in
the minds of voters. These findings, however, have not been incorporated into the
vast literature on economic voting"
Sujet(s) : Élections -- Aspect économique
Indice(s) Dewey :
324.9 (23e éd.) = Élections - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107148192. - ISBN 1107148197 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452512579
Notice n° :
FRBNF45251257
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
