This article builds and estimates several econometric models that explain and forecast the outcomes of the French elections for the European Parliament. These models show the influence of the change in the local unemployment rate to explain the vote for the moderate Left and the moderate Right...

This paper examines the bargaining over how to combine lists of candidates between rounds of the 2004 and 2010 French regional elections. Regressions support the hypothesis that a party's fraction of a coalition's total seats won will be equal to that party's fraction of the total first-round...

Nannestad and Paldam (Public Choice 79:213–245, <CitationRef CitationID="CR73">1994</CitationRef>) published herein an extremely influential review of the literature linking economics and elections, what they called the “VP functions.” In that work, they offered a number of conclusions, in proposition form, about the state of the...</citationref>

This paper examines whether the European integration process, by transferring policy instruments to supra-national authorities, has affected voters’ evaluations of governments’ economic performance at elections. The analysis is implemented on a panel of 15 EU countries, from 1970 to 2011....

This paper examines if the European integration process, by transferring policy instruments to supra-national authorities, has affected voters’ evaluations of governments’ economic performance at electoral periods. The analysis is implemented on a panel of 15 EU countries, from 1970 to 2011....