Economic shocks, responsibility attribution, and political insulation

• In Event: Intervening Events and Exogenous Shocks to Voting Behavior

Brief Overview

With observational and experimental data, I show that economic shocks do not impact incumbent and populist support. This is because companies “absorb” the impact of these shocks and so politics remains quite insulated from them.

Author

• Costin Ciobanu, Royal Holloway, University of London