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2013-09Type
- Working Paper
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In this paper we investigate whether or not recent initiatives taken by governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of SubjectiveWell Being (SWB) to inform policy makers go in the same direction as citizens expectations on what policy makers should do. We test retrospective voting hypotheses by using standard measures of SWB as a proxy for utility instead of the commonly used indicators of economic and …nancial circumstances. Using the British Household Panel Survey Data we …nd that citizens who are satis…ed with their life are more likely to cast their vote in favour of the ruling party, even taking into account ideological preferences. We show that SWB in‡uences voting decision even when the event a¤ecting the SWB is beyond the government’s control, like the spouse death. Show more
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Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE)Subject
Wellbeing; Political Competition; Swing Voter Hypothesis; Retrospective VotingOrganisational unit
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
03988 - Köthenbürger, Marko / Köthenbürger, Marko
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