A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections

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Autor(a) principal: Magalhães,Pedro C.
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections. Economic performance is thought to be a powerful driver of incumbent electoral performance, and GDP growth and unemployment to be the “big two” factors involved. However, while in the 2011 elections, under a profound economic recession and growing unemployment, the Socialist incumbents lost about one-fourth of the electorate, the center-right coalition experienced losses of similar magnitude in 2015 under a recovering economy and growing employment. Why has this happened? I explore three hypotheses: (1) the economy became a less salient issue in 2015; (2) responsibility for economic outcomes became more blurred in 2015; and (3) national economic evaluations were more contaminated by partisanship and affected by cognitive resources and personal economic experiences in 2015.
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title A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections
spellingShingle A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections
Magalhães,Pedro C.
elections
economic voting
motivated reasoning
austerity policies
title_short A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections
title_full A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections
title_fullStr A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections
title_full_unstemmed A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections
title_sort A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections
author Magalhães,Pedro C.
author_facet Magalhães,Pedro C.
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Magalhães,Pedro C.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv elections
economic voting
motivated reasoning
austerity policies
topic elections
economic voting
motivated reasoning
austerity policies
description A tale of two elections: information, motivated reasoning, and the economy in the 2011 and 2015 Portuguese elections. Economic performance is thought to be a powerful driver of incumbent electoral performance, and GDP growth and unemployment to be the “big two” factors involved. However, while in the 2011 elections, under a profound economic recession and growing unemployment, the Socialist incumbents lost about one-fourth of the electorate, the center-right coalition experienced losses of similar magnitude in 2015 under a recovering economy and growing employment. Why has this happened? I explore three hypotheses: (1) the economy became a less salient issue in 2015; (2) responsibility for economic outcomes became more blurred in 2015; and (3) national economic evaluations were more contaminated by partisanship and affected by cognitive resources and personal economic experiences in 2015.
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