Choosing Challengers: Economic Performance, the Cost of Ruling, and Retrospective Voting

• In Event: Economic Voting

Brief Overview

This paper seeks to understand how voters choose among challenger parties when a poorly performing economy shifts support away from the incumbent. We contend that cost of ruling effects this choice between established and inexperienced challengers.

Authors

• Timothy Hellwig, Indiana University-Bloomington

• Tonya K Dodez, Indiana University, Bloomington