| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w20311
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 20311
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| An Econometric Evaluation of Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap |
| Brian G. Knight
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| 发表日期 | 2014-07-17
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| 出版年 | 2014
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper provides a unified theoretical and empirical analysis of three longstanding explanations for the consistent loss of support for the President’s party in midterm Congressional elections: (1) a Presidential penalty, defined as a preference for supporting the opposition during midterm years, (2) a surge and decline in voter turnout, and (3) a reversion to the mean in voter ideology. To quantify the contribution of each of these factors, we build an econometric model in which voters jointly choose whether or not to participate and which party to support in both House and Presidential elections. Estimated using ANES data from both Presidential and midterm years, the model can fully explain the observed midterm gaps, and counterfactual simulations demonstrate that each factor makes a sizable contribution towards the midterm gap, with the Presidential penalty playing the largest role. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Welfare and Collective Choice
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20311
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577985
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Brian G. Knight. An Econometric Evaluation of Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap. 2014.
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