Economic Conditions and Electoral Outcomes: The United States and Western Europe
About this ebook
economics influence elections? How does such influence work? Under what
conditions is it more or less likely to occur?
Free,
popular elections matter, and they make a difference precisely because, at
periodic intervals, they set the limits or constraints within which the
interests of business and the interests of the people pursue their political
goals.
These are
the basic ideas addressed in the chapters of this volume.
"This fine collection of papers dealing with the effects of economic variables on electoral behaviour and electoral outcomes . . . will be of particular interest to specialists in the study of elections, but will also be valuable to students of political economy and comparative politics more generally . . ." - Canadian Journal of Politics
About the author
Edited by Heinz Eulau, Stanford University, and Michael Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa. Both have authored many fundamental texts analyzing how votes are won and what tools are used to influence the behavior of the electorate.
Heinz Eulau is the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Stanford University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he edits the journal Political Behavior, published by Agathon Press. He serves as an Associate Director of ICPSR.
Michael Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa.
