caa a22 4500 388108339 CHVBK 20180307125346.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900013949 doi S0008423900013949 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900013949 Johnston Richard University of British Columbia Business Cycles, Political Cycles and the Popularity of Canadian Governments, 1974-1998 [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Johnston] This article examines the popularity of Canadian governments between 1974 and 1998 as revealed by the monthly Gallup poll. Approval of each majority government in the 1974-1993 period underwent a cycle of honeymoon, decay and recovery. Underneath the cycle was a long-term downward trend. A simple politicoeconomic model accounts for a large fraction of long-term decay and helps explain the anti-government landslides of 1984 and 1993. But the model leaves inter-election popularity cycles largely unexplained. After 1993, the economy ceased to account for popularity and a wholly new, but apparently stable, electoral cycle emerged. The article concludes with speculation on causes of and contingency in electoral cycles. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1999 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/3(1999-09), 499-520 0008-4239 32:3<499 1999 32 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900013949 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900013949 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johnston Richard University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/3(1999-09), 499-520 0008-4239 32:3<499 1999 32 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge