Casualties, the partisanship and culpability of the government, and incumbent vote share

• In Event: Pressure from Below: Domestic Politics and International Outcomes

Brief Overview

We test the effect of casualties from interstate conflicts on incumbent vote share by conditioning on the partisanship of the government at election time and whether the current government is the culpable government.

Authors

• James Dongjin Kim, Texas A&M University

• Michael T. Koch, Texas A & M University-College Station