A cross-national analysis of economic voting: taking account of the political context across time and nations

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Nadeau ◽  
Richard G Niemi ◽  
Antoine Yoshinaka
Keyword(s):  
Economic Voting ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Cross National

scholarly journals Explaining political choice: prospects for economic theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
S. Slukhai
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Economic Voting ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Choice ◽  
Voter Preferences ◽  
Political Market ◽  
Market Choice ◽  
Economic Vote ◽  
Modern Economic

The goal of the article is to demonstrate the potential of the economic theory in political choice as opposed to market choice. The article analyzes the input of economic theory to analyzing political choice. The following research objectives were set: (a) to highlight the development of the modern economic theory with regard to political choice with special semphasis on studies dealing with transition nations; (b) to demonstrate relevance or irrelevance of economic voting concept under conditions of modern Ukraine; (c) to find out how the information imperfectness and its comprehension by consumers in the political market affect the resulting choice. The scope of this study extends to an individual’s choice within the political market, and a subject is its distinctiveness under conditions of transition society. It is shown that political choice is characterized by inherent irrationality that gives space to different ways of external influencing voter preferences. The author proves that the economic vote is not present in the Ukrainian political context.

Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
EILEEN MCDONAGH
Keyword(s):  
State Policies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Difference Principle ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Political Citizenship ◽  
Women's Equality ◽  
Political Inclusion ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cross National

This research challenges models of democratization that claim liberal principles affirming the equality of rights-bearing individuals equably enhance the political inclusion of groups marginalized by race, class, or gender. While such explanations may suffice for race and class, this study's quantitative cross-national analysis of women's contemporary officeholding patterns establishes that gender presents a counter case whereby women's political citizenship is enhanced, first, by government institutions that paradoxically affirm both individual equality and kinship group difference and, second, by state policies that paradoxically affirm both individual equality and women's group difference. These findings challenge assumptions about the relationship between political citizenship and democratization, demonstrate how women's political inclusion as voters and officeholders is strengthened not by either a “sameness” principle (asserting women's equality to men as individuals) or a “difference” principle (asserting women's group difference from men) but rather by the paradoxical combination of both, and provide new views for assessing multiculturalism prospects within democratic states.

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