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- Title
What Is and What May Never Be: Economic Voting in Developing Democracies.
- Authors
Wimpy, Cameron; Whitten, Guy D.
- Abstract
Objective We propose and test a theory that media freedom determines the extent of economic voting in developing democracies. Methods Building on extant work that suggests economic voting takes place in developing democracies much like it does in established democracies (Lewis-Beck and Stegmaier, 2008), we test our theory using a new collection of aggregate data from elections in 22 developing democracies in Africa Results Media freedom rather than political freedom may be a bigger determinant of economic voting in developing democracies. Moreover, the threshold of political development needed for economic voting is lower than previously suggested by the literature. Conclusion Economic voting is alive and well in developing democracies-even those with relatively low levels of economic and political development.
- Subjects
AFRICA; ECONOMIC voting; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL development; ELECTIONS; MASS media &; politics; ECONOMIC development; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell), 2017, Vol 98, Issue 3, p1099
- ISSN
0038-4941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ssqu.12444