The Common Coin and the Public Voice: Economic Preferences and Policies

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel brings together papers to uncover preferences over economic policies such as the exchange rate. Aytaç and Steinberg consider how voters react to rapid currency depreciation in Turkey and find strong links with job insecurity. Amri and Bouvet use original public opinion survey data in Indonesia's 2019 election to test the relationship between different economic policies of the government and the probability of voting for the incumbent. Goodhart investigates how preferences over the real exchange rate vary with demographic factors, and finds that younger populations prefer devaluation.

Sub Unit

• Division 16: International Political Economy

Individual Presentations

• Economic Voting in New Democracies: The Case of Indonesia - Puspa D Amri, Sonoma State University; Florence Ghislaine Bouvet, Sonoma State University

• Economic Insecurity and Voter Attitudes about Currency Crises - S. Erdem Aytaç, Koç University; David A. Steinberg, Johns Hopkins University

• Social Preferences, Youth Cohorts and the Real Exchange Rate - Lucy M. Goodhart, Brandeis University

Chair

• Ronald L. Rogowski University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant

• Ronald L. Rogowski University of California, Los Angeles