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07 June 2024

Voters Don't Care If Elected Officials Did A Good Job

Governments that implement (or keep in place) policies with higher levels of support in the electorate do not do better in subsequent elections. This result holds when controlling for the state of the economy, and when using other, country-specific, datasets. The study reinforces conclusions from previous research that retrospective policy voting seems to be very limited.

From the journal Electoral Studies, in a study which had a quite large data sample. 

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