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Liberini, Federica , Redoano, Michela and Proto, Eugenio (2013) Happy voters. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2013 (Number 169).
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Abstract
In this paper we investigate whether or not recent initiatives taken by governments
and international organizations to come up with indicators of Subjective Well
Being (SWB) to inform policy makers go in the same direction as citizens expectations
on what policy makers should do. We test retrospective voting hypotheses
by using standard measures of SWB as a proxy for utility instead of the commonly
used indicators of economic and financial circumstances. Using the British Household
Panel Survey Data we find that citizens who are satisfied with their life are
more likely to cast their vote in favour of the ruling party, even taking into account
ideological preferences. We show that SWB influences voting decision even when
the event affecting the SWB is beyond the government’s control, like the spouse
death.
| Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Well-being , Voting -- Great Britain | ||||
| Series Name: | CAGE Online Working Paper Series | ||||
| Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK | ||||
| Official Date: | September 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 2013 | ||||
| Number: | Number 169 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 38 | ||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 December 2016 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 December 2016 | ||||
| Funder: | University of Warwick |
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