Mar 16, 2008
Economic hardship doesn’t always hurt parties
Timothy Hellwing’s paper for the EPOP panels at the PSA on ‘Instruments of Citizen Control? Elections, Economics, and Strategic Parties’ uses data from 18 countries over a 33 year period to show how parties can position themselves to avoid blame for any economic downturn. One of his conclusions is this: ‘Government parties will not be punished for overseeing hard times if their proposals for the economy are similar to those proposed by the opposition’. Take note, Mr Osborne.
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