Interdependence, Government Constraints, and Economic Voting

By Timothy Hellwig. Journal of Politics, 2001

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Performance pressure: Patterns of partisanship and the economic vote (2011, background): “Duch and Stevenson (2008) find a diminishing economic vote; Hellwig (2001) argues that voters hold governments less accountable for economic variation that is beyond their control in a globalising economy.27 Still others (e.g., Anderson 1995) argue that greater governmental involvement in the…”
Voting in Open Economies (2007, background): “Hellwig (2001) asserts that trade openness upsets the traditional connections between voters and elected policy makers in closed economies.”
Clarity of responsibility: How government cohesion conditions performance voting (2013, background): “Moreover, the focus on economic voting for assessing electoral accountability may also be problematic in an increasingly globalised world where government control over the economy is constrained by exogenous factors to varying degrees (Hellwig 2001, 2010).”
The End of Economic Voting? Contingency Dilemmas and the Limits of Democratic Accountability (2007, background): “Yet, as several decades of research have revealed, 1To keep this topic manageable, I focus on democratic elections in the developed countries, and I focus on the domestic political economy (unlike Hellwig 2001, for example).”