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Type | Journal Article - Electoral Studies |
Title | Electoral accountability in the developing world |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 3 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2013 |
Page numbers | 418-424 |
URL | http://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2013.05.030 |
Abstract | Do citizens of the developing world behave as economic voters? Do they blame and reward incumbent governments for their perceived economic performance? In addressing these questions, the current paper fills an important void left by the extant literature by adopting a large-n approach with the use of public opinion survey data and by focusing on emerging democracies of the developing world. The proposed analysis develops a series of incumbent support models to assess the impact of economic assessments. It relies on the use of public opinion survey data from countries of Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and East Asia, and the Arab world. The paper contributes to the extant literature at the empirical, methodological, and theoretical levels. Empirically, it provides a unique and systematic account of the phenomenon through a large-scale comparative approach. Theoretically, it contributes to the debate on the value of economic voting to explain electoral behavior in the developing world. Methodologically, it shows that using presidential approval is a fair alternative to vote choice and that a full model specification is not absolutely necessary to estimating the economic effect. |
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Gelineau, Francois. "Electoral accountability in the developing world." Electoral Studies 32, no. 3 (2013): 418-424.