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20 Comp. Pol. Stud. 3 (1987-1988)

handle is hein.journals/compls20 and id is 1 raw text is: This is an analysis of the effects of economic factors on voting behavior in the United Kingdom. Aggregate- and individual-level data are used. When the results are compared to findings generated by the United States case, some intriguing differences appear. To mention just two examples, unemployment and inflation seem to be much more important in the United Kingdom than in the United States, and changes in real per capita income are positively related to election results in the United States and negatively related in the United Kingdom. More generally, while the aggregate results are strong and the individual-level results weak in the United States, in the United Kingdom the situation is practically reversed. ON THE ISSUES SURROUNDING ECONOMIC VOTING Looking to the British Case for Answers JOHN R. HIBBING University of Nebraska E conomic conditions influence the amount of electoral support received by the party in power. The simplicity of this widely accepted statement is deceptive, for directly behind it lurk countless difficult and important issues. Economic conditions how measured? Unemployment? Inflation? Real income? Changes in these measures or AUTHOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this article waspreparedforpresentation at the Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester, U.K., April 1985. This material is based upon work supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization under a grant awarded in 1984. Some of the data utilized in this study were made available by the Inter- University Consortium for Political Research and were originally collected by David Butler and Donald Stokes. Other data were made available by the SSRC Data Archive at the University of Essex and were orginally collected by Ivor Crewe and Bo Sarlvik. Neither NA TO, the respective consortiums, nor the original collectors of the data COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES, Vol. 20 No. 1, April 1987 3-33 o 1987 Sage Publications, Inc. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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