Economic Downturns and Political Competition Since the 1870s
Lindvall, Johannes LU
(2017)
In Journal of Politics
79(4).
p.1302-1314
- Abstract
Relying on new data on the ideology of heads of government in 27 democracies over a period of more than 140 years, this article shows that short economic downturns, with a single year of falling per capita consumption, have more often resulted in shifts to the right than shifts to the left. But long-lasting economic downturns, with more than one consecutive year of falling consumption, are different, since they tend to affect a much greater proportion of the population: compared with short downturns, which favor the right, long downturns have more uniform political effects.
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- Lindvall, Johannes
LU
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- publishing date
- 2017-10-01
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
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- Journal of Politics
- volume
- 79
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- University of Chicago Press
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- scopus:85031677319
- wos:000418267500020
- ISSN
- 0022-3816
- DOI
- 10.1086/692787
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- English
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