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Economic voting in direct democracy: a case study of the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum

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Leininger, Arndt

Abstract

Referendums provide citizens with more control over policy. At the same time, they often entail choices over highly complex policies and are politicised along partisan lines, suggesting that partisan rather than policy considerations will guidevoters’ choices. I look to the 2016 Italian constitution... view more

Referendums provide citizens with more control over policy. At the same time, they often entail choices over highly complex policies and are politicised along partisan lines, suggesting that partisan rather than policy considerations will guidevoters’ choices. I look to the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum, which was particularly complex and polarised, asan opportunity to test for mechanisms of government accountability in a referendum. Using a national survey of voters,I show that the more negative a respondent's evaluation of the state of the economy, the lower their likelihood to vote ‘yes’on the government’s reform proposal. This relationship is remarkably strong: an average respondent with a very positiveevaluation of the state of the economy has an 88% probability of supporting the government’s reform proposal comparedto only 12% for a respondent with a very negative evaluation. The fact that economic evaluations are a strong determinantof vote choice provides evidence for the existence of an economic vote in a referendum. This further suggests that votersmay treat referendums as a sort of second-order election.... view less

Keywords
democracy; Italy; election; economic situation; voter; survey

Free Keywords
direct democracy; economic voting; referendums; second-order election; voting

Document language
English

Publication Year
2019

Page/Pages
p. 306-333

Journal
Politics and Governance, 7 (2019) 2

ISSN
2183-2463

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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