Economic Voting Behavior and the Political Right-Wing (Empirical Evidence from the Slovak Republic)

URL:	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256013931...
Weitere URL:	https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/0913103409%201...
Dokumenttyp:	Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe:	Ekonomicky casopis = Journal of Economics
Band/Volume:	59
Heft/Issue:	9
Seitenbereich:	905-917
Ort der Veröffentlichung:	Bratislava
Verlag:	Slovak Akad. Press
ISSN:	0013-3035
Verwandte URLs:	https://gess.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/g...
Sprache der Veröffentlichung:	Englisch
Einrichtung:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > GESS - CDSS (SOWI) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > MZES - Arbeitsbereich A
Fachgebiet:	300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Übersetzung des Abstracts:	This paper evaluates the differences in the degree to which the preferences of the Slovak right-wing and left-wing parties are affected by the development of consumer prices and unemployment. Using the linear regression approach, it provides evidence that Slovak left-wing voters are resistant to economic voting, which is demonstrated by the fact that changes in the preferences of the Slovak left-wing government during 2006 – 2008 did not react to changes in the CPI and the unemployment rate. By contrast, the Slovak right-wing is held account-able by its voters both for rising prices and unemployment. Thus, our research unveils a new, unexpected difference between left- and right-wing voters. Furthermore, it is argued that, under constantly decreasing monetary and fiscal sovereignty in EU member states, political parties that have voters highly responsive to economic conditions are in a disadvantage as their preferences are dependent on factors they can influence less than in the past. Keywords: economic voting, political voting, left-wing, right-wing, regression analysis. (Englisch)