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11935 results in Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique & past titles

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  • Economic Conditions and the Popularity of the Incumbent Party in Canada*

  • Calum M. Carmichael
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / December 1990
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 November 2009, pp. 713-726

  • This study measures the effects of macroeconomic conditions upon the popularity of the incumbent party in Canadian federal general elections from 1945 to 1988. In so doing it uses a model similar to the retrospective voting models used in electoral studies in the United States. The results suggest that for the elections from 1945 to 1972, bad economic conditions preceding the election benefited the incumbent party. For the elections from 1974 to 1988, these effects were diminished or reversed. Such results have precedents in separate studies that use Canadian poll data. However, they contradict the general conclusion of American studies that bad conditions hurt the incumbent. This contradiction suggests that the model's assumptions about voting behaviour, which appear to be verified by the American studies, do not apply universally.

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