We review advances in the study of retrospective voting, or how citizens evaluate and act on
their perceptions of government performance. As a whole, the recent literature provides a …

Economic conditions shape election outcomes in the world's democracies. Good times keep
parties in office, bad times cast them out. This proposition is robust, as the voluminous body …

Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses
on'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state …

Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about
government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their …

" The book's combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political
attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it... I have yet to find another text that accomplishes …

Popular trust in political institutions is vital to democracy, but in post-Communist countries,
popular distrust for institutions is widespread, and prospects for generating increased …

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or
rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases …

Abstract Nannestad and Paldam (Public Choice 79: 213–245, 1994) published herein an
extremely influential review of the literature linking economics and elections, what they …

Democratic accountability requires that the public be reasonably well-informed about what
policymakers actually do. Such a public would adjust its preferences for" more" or" less" …

Do political institutions affect citizen satisfaction with democracy? If so, how? Using cross-
sectional survey data for eleven European democracies together with data on the type of …