Economic voting in Finland before and after an economic crisis

Söderlund, Peter; Kestilä‐Kekkonen, Elina

doi:10.1057/ap.2014.11

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“…The unemployment rate first rose from 6.9 to 8.4 percent 2007–9 and then decreased to 7.9 percent in 2011. After the 2011 parliamentary election, close to 50 percent of the respondents in the National Election Study felt that the current economic situation was worse compared to previous years (Söderlund & Kestilä‐Kekkonen ).…”

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Political Trust, Individual‐level Characteristics and Institutional Performance: Evidence from Finland, 2004–13

Kestilä‐Kekkonen

Söderlund

2015

Scand Pol Stud

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Several scholars agree that low political trust has fundamental negative implications for society at large. This study tests the power of institutional performance theory in explaining the differences between individuals in political trust (cross-sectional) and fluctuations of political trust over time (longitudinal). Indeed, the dominant scholarly debate has concerned whether political trust is stable and dependent of endogenous factors such as political socialization and social trust, or whether it is exogenous (i.e., in constant fluctuation due to later experiences with institutions and the outputs they produce). In terms of cross-sectional differences, the aim is to assess the relative impact institutional performance on political trust of a citizen.As regards the longitudinal approach, political trust varies over time and from an explanatory perspective it is important also to understand how well the institutional performance theory predicts over-time variation of political trust. The study employs repeated European Social Survey data for Finland between 2004 and 2013. The results show, first and foremost, the strong impact of evaluations of institutional performance on political trust: satisfaction with government and economy explains differences both between individuals and over time. Social trust and welfare state performance are also strong predictors, but they explain differences only at the individual level and do not predict over-time variations.

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Political Trust, Individual‐level Characteristics and Institutional Performance: Evidence from Finland, 2004–13

Kestilä‐Kekkonen

Söderlund

2015

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“…Among the most influential works we find Danish studies on economic voting (Nannestad & Paldam ) – a theme that has preoccupied other Nordic scholars as well (cf. Bengtsson ; Listhaug ; Martinsson ; Mattila ; Narud & Valen ; Söderlund & Kestilä‐Kekkonen ). Another influential theme has been issue voting (Aardal & van Wijnen ; Borre ), in relation to which we find Nordic scholars to be very prominent in the debate about proximity or directional voting models that appear in the American Political Science Review and the British Journal of Political Science (MacDonald et al.…”

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Nordic Research on Political Behaviour

Schoultz

2015

Scand Pol Stud

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This review article sets out to give an overarching presentation of Nordic research on political behaviour, which has constituted a vital subfield within Nordic political science since the 1950s. The aim of the article is to give the reader a sense of what characterises the development within the field and to point towards interesting research worth further exploring. The review covers some notes on the general progress within the field, a bibliographic analysis of publication patters complemented by a presentation of the dominating themes of research, and a discussion of methodological advancements. Research within the field rests on the strong legacy of the Norwegian scholar Stein Rokkan and the early influence of the behaviouralism and American research. The biographical analysis does, however, clearly demonstrate the leading position of Danish scholars in terms of both qualitative and quantitative indicators. From a methodological perspective, researchers within the region can be described as early adapters. The electoral programmes established in the middle of the 1950s in Sweden and Norway are among the oldest in the world, following on from the pioneering efforts of the United States which stretch back to 1948. Furthermore, recent years have brought about a significant increase in experimental research. Thematically, the research agenda has been dominated by, but not restricted to, electoral research. Sophisticated knowledge of how voters think and act at elections, but also of the changing role and behaviour of citizens within the Nordic sphere, has been developed over time.

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The conditional effect of personal vote-seeking behaviors on MPs electoral performance: Evidence from an open-list PR system

Poyet

2021

Electoral Studies

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Economic voting in Finland before and after an economic crisis

Cited by 5 publications

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Political Trust, Individual‐level Characteristics and Institutional Performance: Evidence from Finland, 2004–13

Political Trust, Individual‐level Characteristics and Institutional Performance: Evidence from Finland, 2004–13

Nordic Research on Political Behaviour

The conditional effect of personal vote-seeking behaviors on MPs electoral performance: Evidence from an open-list PR system

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