Essays on Economic Voting, Cognitive Dissonance, and Trust

Essays on Economic Voting, Cognitive Dissonance, and Trust

Essay 1: (with Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara) We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats propo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elinder, Mikael
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2008
Subjects:
Economic voting
Voting
Regional economic conditions
Political attitudes
Cognitive dissonance
Social capital
Trust
Economic growth
Robustness
Applied econometrics
Elections
Self-interest
Election promise
Pocketbook voting
Prospective voting
Retrospective voting
Child care
Local economic conditions
Economics
Nationalekonomi
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