Privatization and the British Electorate
Microeconomic Policies, Macroeconomic Evaluations, and Party Support
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6230971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donley T Studlar, I Mcallister (0000-0001-8448-6738), Alvaro Ascui |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1077 |
| Publication date | 1990-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2111472 |
| OpenAlex | W2332027812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 26 |
Despite much scholarly research on the link between macroeconomic evaluations and political behavior, relatively little is known about the influence of government economic policy on this process. Margaret Thatcher's recent sales of public assets (privatization) in Britain provide a unique opportunity to examine the link between microeconomic activity (measured by privatization), macroeconomic evaluations, and voting. By applying multivariate analysis to data collected during the 1983 and 1987 general elections, we show that privatization (measured by share purchases and council house ownership) stimulates positive judgments about the country's economy. However, the effect of privatization on the vote is almost entirely indirect, via these retrospective judgments about the economy. While privatization has undoubtedly benefited the Conservatives electorally, the evidence on council house purchases suggests that the impact may be temporary
Business · Economic policy · Economics · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Genre analysis, and the social sciences
Economic Models of Voting
Housing and electoral behaviour
Adam Smith or Machiavelli? Political incentives for contracting out local public services
Support for Market Economy Principles in European Post-communist Countries during 1999-2008
The tenure gap in electoral participation
The Political Preferences of Prospective Homeowners
Bricks in the wall
Housing and populism
Electoral Competition and Policy Feedback Effects
The (Un)Importance of Party Leaders
Sheltering Populists? House Prices and the Support for Populist Parties
Contracting Out Local Services
Preference-Shaping
The political consequences of thatcherism
A Political Perspective on Contracting Out
Effects of authoritarian and libertarian values on Conservative and Labour party support in Great Britain
Housing Wealth and Party Choice in a Multiparty System
The Politics of Structural Change
The Politics of Housing
Heightening Comparativists' Concern for Model Choice
Economics, Party, and the Vote
What You See and What You Get
The Compleat Economic Voter
Privatization, Share Ownership and Voting
Pension Returns and Popular Support for Neoliberalism in Post-Pension Reform Latin America
Issues, Economics, and the Dynamics of Multiparty Elections
Policy and the British voter
Testing the ownership society
Endogenous economic voting
Why Parties Displace Their Voters
The Free Economy and the Strong State
Political Change in Britain
Nonrecursive Causal Models
Political Control of the Economy
Council house sales and the electorate
Log-Linear Techniques and the Regression Analysis of Dummy Dependent Variables
Voters Begin to Choose
The United Kingdom
Economic Conditions and Individual Vote in the Federal Republic of Germany
The Spanish Voter
Economics and the French Voter
Popular versus Elite Views of Privatization
On the Issues Surrounding Economic Voting
The Dynamics of Third-Party Support
Economic Self-Interest and Political Behavior
Economics and Politics in the 1984 American Presidential Election
Emotional Reactions to the Economy
Economic Adversity and Voter Turnout
Economic Discontent and Political Behavior
The Impact of Personal and National Economic Conditions on the Presidential Vote
The Electoral Impact of Economic Conditions
Coping
Housing Tenure and Party Choice in Australia, Britain and the United States
The Decomposition of Effects in Path Analysis
The Ecological Fallacy Revisited
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,91 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |