Premium
Popularity Functions for the Portuguese Prime Minister, Government, Parliament and President
Author(s) -
VEIGA LINDA ROSA FONSECA GONÇALVES
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/1475-6765.00386
Subject(s) - parliament , popularity , prime minister , honeymoon , government (linguistics) , unemployment , portuguese , political science , inflation (cosmology) , politics , economics , prime (order theory) , public administration , law , macroeconomics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , mathematics , combinatorics , theoretical physics
. The purpose of this paper is to estimate popularity functions for the Portuguese Prime Minister, Government, Parliament and President using the ordinary least squares (OLS) and seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) methods. The results indicate that: (1) popularity polls for the Prime Minister and Government are better explained by economic conditions than are similar polls for the Parliament and President; (2) unemployment is a significant variable determining popularity while inflation is not; (3) honeymoon effects are significant; (4) popularity deteriorates over consecutive terms.