Economics and Electorates: The Subjective Economy of British Party Support

小行星9600018 长期以来，政党支持的政治经济学研究的特点是相互冲突的理论观点和尖锐的经验分歧的各种解释变量的意义。 特别是，两个长期存在的辩论都集中在自我中心的作用，而不是sociotropic，回顾与前瞻性，在制定党的支持决定的评价。 与这些争论相冲突的是一个普遍的分歧，即发挥最大作用的评价是否可以在理性选择框架内解释。 认识到比较调查可以指出解决这些争议的方向，本研究继续管理的三个消费者信心问题，每月英国盖洛普调查（N=1,000）。 本研究自1995年8月起，连续收集20个月的资料（至1997年4月）。 此外，还将每月向主要调查员提供数据，并在盖洛普政治和经济指数中报告，以供其他许多有兴趣开发和测试与政党支持的主观经济有关的各种替代模型的学者使用。 这些数据将适用于先进的，总体水平的计量经济学建模程序和复杂的个人水平的技术。 这是一个数据资源，将被对该主题感兴趣的社会科学研究社区广泛使用。 ***

9600018 Stewart Research on the political economy of party support long has been characterized by conflicting theoretical perspectives and sharp empirical disagreements about the significance of various explanatory variables. In particular, two long-standing debates have focused on the roles played by egocentric as opposed to sociotropic, and retrospective versus prospective, evaluations in the formulation of party support decisions. Intertwined with these debates is a general disagreement over whether the evaluation which exerts the largest effect can be interpreted within a rational choice framework. Recognizing that comparative investigations can point in the direction of resolving these controversies, this research continues the administration of three Consumer Confidence questions in monthly British Gallup surveys (N=1,000). Since the series were to be terminated in August, 1995, this research gathers data for 20 consecutive months (until April, 1997). Also on a monthly basic, the data will be provided to the principal investigator and reported in the Gallup Political and Economic Index for the purposes of many other scholars interested in the development and testing of a variety of alternative models relevant to the subjective economy of party support. These data will be amenable to advanced, aggregate level econometric modeling procedures and sophisticated individual-level techniques. This is a data resource that will be widely used by the social science research community interested in the topic. ***