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The Impact of Issues and the Economy in the 1997 Canadian Federal Election

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2002

André Blais ,
Richard Nadeau ,
Elisabeth Gidengil  and
Neil Nevitte
André Blais
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec
Richard Nadeau
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec
Elisabeth Gidengil
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Neil Nevitte
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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This article examines the impact of issues and the economy in the 1997 Canadian election among voters outside Quebec. The authors show that both factors affected individual vote choice and provide estimates of how much difference the issues and the economy made in the election. It appears that the issues were decisive for 9 per cent of the voters and the economy for 4 per cent. Issues mattered more than the economy for individual vote choice. The net impact of both the issues and the economy on vote support for the different parties was practically nil. The findings indicate that the Liberal victory cannot be imputed to the economy or the issues.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , June 2002 , pp. 409 - 421
Copyright
© The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique

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