caa a22 4500 475800664 CHVBK 20180406123736.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1010678014057 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1010678014057 Thinking About Economic Interests: Class and Recession in the New Deal [Elektronische Daten] [M. Weatherford, Boris Sergeyev] In spite of a large literature showing the effect of economic conditions on voters' evaluations of incumbent policymakers, little research has inquired about the breadth or depth of the impact of economic conditions beyond elections. Do voters integrate their economic perceptions with other political beliefs and attitudes, using them to orient issue stands on relevant policy questions? Or are political responses to economic fluctuations compartmentalized reactions to specific incumbents? And how do perceptions of short-run economic conditions compare with class, the primary alternative frame for thinking about economic interests? We investigate the impact of economic conditions on voters' evaluation of the incumbent and on issue positions, systematically comparing economic conditions and class as orienting cleavages, drawing on data from the New Deal. We find that economic conditions had strong impacts on incumbent evaluations during this period but that beyond this the economy had only small effects—especially when compared with class—on the most salient economic issues of the day. Drawing on NES data for later years, we replicate this pattern of findings for the postwar period. The conclusion suggests implications for understanding both the political effects of economic conditions and the structure of public opinion on economic issues. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 class voting nationallicence public opinion nationallicence elections nationallicence economic voting nationallicence New Deal nationallicence Weatherford M. Department of Political Science, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, California aut Sergeyev Boris University of California, Santa Barbara aut Political Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/4(2000-12-01), 311-339 0190-9320 22:4<311 2000 22 11109 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010678014057 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010678014057 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weatherford M. Department of Political Science, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, California aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sergeyev Boris University of California, Santa Barbara aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Political Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/4(2000-12-01), 311-339 0190-9320 22:4<311 2000 22 11109 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer