Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
No 2007:1:
Local Economies and General Elections
Mikael Elinder ()
Abstract: This paper estimates voters’ response to municipality and
regional level unemployment and economic growth, in Swedish general
elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9
regions. An increase in regional growth or a reduction in regional
unemployment by one percentage point is associated with an increase in the
support for the national government by about 0.8 and 1.1 percentage points.
Changes in unemployment and growth at the municipality level seem to have
much smaller effects on government support.
Keywords: elections; voting; local economic conditions; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: H11; R11; R12; R58; (follow links to similar papers)
26 pages, November 23, 2006
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