Essays on Economic Voting, Cognitive Dissonance, and Trust

Essay 1: (with Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara) We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats propo...

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Main Author: Elinder, Mikael
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2008
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9364
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-85519-20-0

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