caa a22 4500 38637919X CHVBK 20180307112034.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900001359 doi S0008423900001359 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900001359 Happy J. R. University of Guelph Economic Performance and Retrospective Voting in Canadian Federal Elections [Elektronische Daten] [J. R. Happy] This study examines the retrospective economic voting model for Canadian federal elections, 1930 through 1979. The analysis shows that change in personal or disposable income has a significant, direct impact on incumbency voting while inflation enters the voting calculus indirectly, as a (partial) deflator of nominal income, and unemployment has no effect. Disposable income is a better predictor of incumbency voting than is personal income, nominal income variables predict better than real values and variability in income performance is negatively related to incumbency voting. The study concludes that voter attribution of responsibility for income performance is focussed and specific, income stability as well as income growth are demanded through incumbency voting, and voters are affected by money illusion. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1989 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/2(1989-06), 377-388 0008-4239 22:2<377 1989 22 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900001359 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900001359 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Happy J. R. University of Guelph NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/2(1989-06), 377-388 0008-4239 22:2<377 1989 22 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge