dc.contributor.author | BOJAR, Abel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-06T13:55:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-06T13:55:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | European political science review, 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 291-322 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1755-7739 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1755-7747 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59938 | |
dc.description | First published: May 2018 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Despite widely held views on fiscal adjustment as a political minefield for government parties, the empirical literature on the issue has been surprisingly inconclusive. A crucial variable that has been often overlooked in the debate is partisan politics. Building on the micro-logic of Albert Hirschman's exit, voice, and loyalty' framework, this article offers a novel theoretical perspective on the conditioning impact of partisan government in the electoral arena. Due to their more limited exit options at their disposal, left-wing voters are less likely to inflict electoral punishment on their parties, offering the latter an electoral advantage over their right-wing rivals. Relying on the largest cross-national data set to date on the evolution of close to 100 parties' popularity ratings in 21 democracies, time-series-cross-section results confirm this electoral advantage. Somewhat paradoxically, while center-right government parties systematically lose popularity in years of fiscal adjustment, no such regularity is found for left-leaning incumbents. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | European political science review | |
dc.subject | Fiscal adjustment | |
dc.subject | Electoral politics | |
dc.subject | Popularity | |
dc.subject | Exit and voice | |
dc.subject | Austerity | |
dc.subject | Welfare-state retrenchment | en |
dc.subject | Cross-national analysis | en |
dc.subject | Political-economy | en |
dc.subject | Blame avoidance | en |
dc.subject | European countries | en |
dc.subject | Partisan politics | en |
dc.subject | Party competition | en |
dc.subject | Radical right | en |
dc.subject | Section-data | en |
dc.subject | Policy | en |
dc.title | The electoral advantage of the left in times of fiscal adjustment | |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S1755773917000169 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 10 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 291 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 322 | |
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dc.identifier.issue | 2 | |