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Economic performance and turnout at national and local elections
Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 3, pp. 429-448
turnout at Portuguese municipal and legislative elections. The empirical results indicate that the performance of the national … economy is important only in legislative elections and that the regional and local unemployment rates tend to have non …
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Economic voting in Portuguese municipal elections
Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 3, pp. 317-334
This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions on Portuguese municipal electoral outcomes. We use two extensive datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have different levels of responsibility for economic...
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