Bringing the President Back In

The Collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Evolution of Retrospective Voting in the 2008 Presidential Election

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6340656
AutoresThomas M Holbrook (0000-0002-9637-5768, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA), Clayton Clouse (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA), Aaron C Weinschenk (0000-0002-2278-0349, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA)
Año2012
Volumen65
Número2
Páginas263-274
Fecha de publicación2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Research Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1065912911398051
OpenAlexW2134499607
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas33

Despite prevailing negative conditions, initial analyses of the 2008 presidential election, including this one, find significant but not particularly strong economic voting effects during the fall campaign. In this article, the authors pay special attention to how the economic information context changed during the campaign and how those changes affected the evolution of retrospective voting. The findings show that there were two distinct phases of the fall campaign, that retrospective voting was nonexistent prior to the collapse of Lehman Brothers but was strong following the collapse. In effect, the collapse of Lehman Brothers turned the election into a referendum election

Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · First-past-the-post voting · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Referendum · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · History · Law · Media Influence and Politics