Economic voting in Sweden 1985–2010
In: Electoral Studies, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 470-475
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In: Electoral Studies, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 470-475
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 470-475
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: British journal of political science, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 825-842
ISSN: 1469-2112
Recent research on economic voting has moved beyond the traditional reward–punishment hypothesis, according to which the economy is merely considered a valence issue. Instead, patrimonial economic voting research looks at voters as property owners within the economic system. These studies have relied on survey items that measure whether individuals own different kinds of property to test the patrimonial dimension. This study emphasizes the importance of a surprisingly neglected aspect: the value of assets. It uses official register data files from the Swedish Tax Agency on the value of individuals' assets merged with survey data from the 2006 Swedish National Election Study. The study finds that the relationship between patrimony and voting behavior in Sweden is similar to that found in other countries, but only when it is tested in a similar way as in these studies – that is, only when it is coded as whether voters own different assets. This study brings three important contributions to the debate. First, it offers a new empirically based categorization of the dimensionality of asset ownership and shows that the previous distinction between low- and high-risk assets is insufficient. Secondly, it shows that merely having assets or not, which is what previous studies have measured, is not what primarily matters; the relevant factor is the value of the assets. And thirdly, it demonstrates that only the value of some kinds of assets matters (especially stocks and real estate properties), while other assets (savings in bonds and funds) do not affect voting behavior or political opinions.
In: British journal of political science, S. 1-18
ISSN: 0007-1234
In: International journal of public opinion research, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 534-561
ISSN: 1471-6909
In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 817-838
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: West European politics, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 817-838
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: Environmental politics, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 518-538
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Environmental politics, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 518-537
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 45, Heft 13, S. 2275-2288
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 433-447
ISSN: 1745-7297
In: International journal of public opinion research, S. edw005
ISSN: 1471-6909
In: Scandinavian political studies, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 137-157
ISSN: 1467-9477
Issue ownership (IO) has been an important concept in the analysis of party behaviour, party strategy and party competition for several decades. More recently, it has also been of growing interest for research on voting behaviour. Traditionally, IO has been regarded as a stable phenomenon where parties have different issue profiles and are advantaged by different political issues or issue-areas. Recently, however, many studies have reported change and fluctuations of IO, and the same studies also makes it clear that we know surprisingly little about what might cause, or facilitate, change in issue ownership. In fact, we do not even have systematic studies of how stable issue ownership is, or how frequent shifts in issue ownership actually are. The aim of this article is to explore the extent of change and stability in issue ownership in Sweden. For this purpose, the Swedish national election studies from 1979 to 2010 are utilised. Although recent research has indicated that changes in IO have increased over time, this is not supported in the Swedish case. Instead, issue ownership seems never to have been a particularly stable phenomenon. However, in line with our theoretical expectations, we show that ownership of economic issues is more volatile compared to ownership of other issues. Adapted from the source document.