dc.contributor.author | Hodgson, Robert | en_GB |
dc.contributor.author | Maloney, John | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-11T15:59:11Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-19T15:50:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-12 | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Despite limited government control over the pre-1914 economy, opposition politicians were enthusiastic in blaming bad economic news on the incumbent. In a study of 458 by-elections between 1857 and 1914, we find that voters typically gave new governments a 'honeymoon' but thereafter held them responsible for high unemployment and high prices. Each 1% rise in the price level, on average, brought about a 0.21% swing against the government of the day, while each one-point rise in the percentage unemployed had double this effect. However, when we split the electorate into borough and county constituencies, economic voting appears to be confined to the former. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 668–678 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.electstud.2012.07.006 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4454 | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Economics Department Discussion Papers Series 10/01 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02613794 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/research/areas/topics/economics/outputs/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | Inflation | en_GB |
dc.subject | voting | en_GB |
dc.subject | unemployment | en_GB |
dc.subject | electoral campaigns | en_GB |
dc.subject | Great Britain | en_GB |
dc.title | Economic voting in Britain, 1857-1914 | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-11T15:59:11Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-19T15:50:10Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0261-3794 | en_GB |
dc.description | Author's manuscript version issued as discussion paper by University of Exeter Economics Department. Final version published by Elsevier; available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/ | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Electoral Studies | en_GB |