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Do Voters Benchmark Economic Performance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2019

Vincent Arel-Bundock ,
André Blais  and
Ruth Dassonneville
Vincent Arel-Bundock*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
André Blais
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
Ruth Dassonneville
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Keywords

economic votingbenchmarkingrelative evaluationsreference pointperformance voting
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 437 - 449
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