Summary Preface vii Introduction 1 1 Studying Economic Voting 8 2 Party Choice as a Two-Stage Process 31 3 Hypotheses and Data: The Theoretical and Empirical Setting 54 4 Effects of the Economy on Party Support 82 5 The Economic Voter 117 6 From Individual Preferences to Election Outcomes 137 7 The Economy, Party Competition, and the Vote 170 Epilogue: Where to Go from Here in the Study of Economic Voting? 193 Appendix A The Surveys Employed in This Book 201 Appendix B Detailed Results Not Reported in the Main Text 207 References 219 Index 229