Bread, peace and the attrition of power : economic events and German election results

by Irem Batool and Gernot Sieg

Aggregate votes for incumbent parties in post-war Germany were determined by the weighted-average growth of real per capita disposable income. Each percentage point of per capita real disposable income growth sustained over the legislative term yielded approximately two percentage points of votes in Germany. No other economic variables add value or significantly perturb the coefficients of our model. However, attrition of power reduced the vote share in election years 1961, 1994 and 1998. -- bread and peace model ; elections ; vote share ; real per capita disposable income growth

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Year of publication:	2009 ; [Neue, verb. Ausg., Elektronische Ressource]
Authors:	Batool, Irem ; Sieg, Gernot
Publisher:	Braunschweig : Inst. für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Subject:	Deutschland \| Germany \| Wahlverhalten \| Voting behaviour \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Nationaleinkommen \| National income

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Extent:	Online Ressource (PDF-Datei: 23 S., ca. 1,5 MB) graph. Darst.
Series:	Economics Department working paper series. - Braunschweig : Inst. f. Volkswirtschaftslehre, ZDB-ID 2464705-6. - Vol. No 3
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/51312 [Handle]
Classification:	E6 - Macroeconomic Policy Formation, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, Macroeconomic Policy, and General Outlook ; H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; P16 - Political Economy
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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