Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81530
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 821
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters’ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and economic growth, using panel data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions, covering Swedish general elections from 1982 to 2002. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage point is associated with an increase in the support for the national government by about 1.7 percentage points. The effect of growth, at the regional level, is substantial in size, but statistically insignificant. At the municipality level, unemployment has a smaller effect than at the regional level and growth has no effect on government support.
Subjects: 
Elections
Voting
Local Economic Conditions
JEL: 
H11
R11
R12
R58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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