Partisanship, the GFC, and Economic Voting: A micro-macro perspective on the endogeneity problem

• In Event: Making Electoral Research Comparative and Longitudinal: Evidence from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) Project

Brief Overview

Using 20 years of data from the CSES and ESS, our paper demonstrates that economic shocks like the Global Financial Crisis can alter partisanship, implying that endogeneity concerns regarding valence economic models may be overstated.

Authors

• Martin Okolikj, Postdoctoral Researcher

• Michael S. Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa

• Stephen Patrick Quinlan, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim