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Comparative economic assessments and the endogeneity of left/right self placement: A research note
Author(s) -
BOWLER SHAUN
Publication year - 1989
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/j.1475-6765.1989.tb00180.x
Subject(s) - endogeneity , popularity , reciprocal , ideology , interdependence , perspective (graphical) , positive economics , contrast (vision) , political science , economics , sociology , social psychology , psychology , politics , econometrics , social science , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
. Previous survey level research on attitudes towards the economy among European voters has tended to focus on the short‐term implications of these attitudes, relating them to vote choice or executive popularity. In this paper we seek to examine the relationships between economic assessments and more fundamental aspects of voter attitudes. More concretely, we examine the links between ideology and economic information, arguing that they are interdependent to the exctent that they can be seen to exist within a reciprocal relationship. In the wake of Kramer, we approach this problem from a comparative perspective, and find that the hypothesised reciprocal relationship is well supported by the statistical evidence.