Exogenous Shocks and Electoral Outcomes: Re-examining the Rational Voter Hypothesis
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Keywords
Voter rationality; Responsive shock; Non-Responsive Shock; Election Outcomes.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2021-10-11 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-ORE-2021-10-11 (Operations Research)
- NEP-POL-2021-10-11 (Positive Political Economics)
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