Economics and politics revisited executive approval and the new calculus of support

"Representative democracy requires the consent of the governed. But what drives public support for government? This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of approval dynamics in the advanced democracies to date. Drawing on data from the Executive Approval Project (EAP), a cross-nationa...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hellwig, Timothy (HerausgeberIn), Singer, Matthew (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Comparative politics
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Zusammenfassung:"Representative democracy requires the consent of the governed. But what drives public support for government? This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of approval dynamics in the advanced democracies to date. Drawing on data from the Executive Approval Project (EAP), a cross-nationally comparable data on leader popularity, authors examine the dynamics of government support in advanced industrial democracies. Eleven country-specific chapters, each written by experts in the politics of the country, examine the role of economic performance in generating leader support in each country. Chapter authors show that the economy matters for popularity. However, the economy-popularity link is stronger in some countries than others. Further, chapters leverage EAP series to highlight changes in this relationship within countries over time. Pooled analyses extend these findings, highlighting how the public's responses to the economy are reduced when political campaigns shift to non-economic issues and when parties are polarized on non-economic issues. Collectively, the volume highlights how evolving issue agendas are changing the nature of political accountability in advanced industrialized democracies. While the economy remains important, the book calls on students of political accountability to give greater attention to how non-economic issues and political dispositions shape the dynamics of government popularity."
Beschreibung:xx, 386 Seiten
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ISBN:9780192871664
978-0-19-287166-4