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Local Economies and General Elections

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This paper estimates voters’ response to municipality and regional level unemployment and economic growth, in Swedish general elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions. An increase in regional growth or a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage point is associated with an increase in the support for the national government by about 0.8 and 1.1 percentage points. Changes in unemployment and growth at the municipality level seem to have much smaller effects on government support.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2007:1

Classification
Wirtschaft
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Regional Development Planning and Policy
Subject
elections
voting
local economic conditions
Regionale Entwicklung
Arbeitslosigkeit
Wirtschaftslage
Wahlverhalten
Schweden

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Elinder, Mikael
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Uppsala University, Department of Economics
(where)
Uppsala
(when)
2006

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-25352
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  • Elinder, Mikael
  • Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2006

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