In a 1971 paper Kramer attempted to establish empirically that macroeconomic variables have a significant impact on the vote shares received by Democratic and Republican congressional candidates. He found mixed results, with the growth rate in per capita real income and the inflation rate being...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Economic and Fiscal Performance in a Mean-Variance Perspective -- 1. Champions of the State Growth League -- 2. The End of State Income Convergence -- 3. Volatile States: Estimates of the Risk-Return Trade-Off -- 4....