Format:
Online-Ressource (400 p)
ISBN:
9780674027367
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: A Framework for the Analysis of Macroeconomics and Electoral Politics -- Macroeconomic and Institutional Background -- The Demand for Economic Outcomes -- The Supply of Economic Outcomes -- I Macroeconomic and Institutional Background -- 1 Postwar American Macroeconomic Performance in Historical Perspective -- Growth and Unemployment -- Inflation -- The Bias toward Inflation -- Monetary Policy, the Financial System, and Economic Stabilization -- Fiscal Policy and Economic Stabilization -- The Security-Inflation Trade-Off -- 2 The Costs of Unemployment -- Defining, Interpreting, and Measuring Unemployment -- The Aggregate Costs of Unemployment -- The Incidence of Unemployment -- The Costs of Unemployment to Individuals -- 3 The Costs of Inflation -- Defining and Measuring Inflation -- Recent Trends and Fluctuations in the Underlying Inflation Rate -- Inflation and the Distribution of Personal Income -- Inflation and Personal Income Growth Rates -- Inflation and Corporate Profitability -- Saving, Investment, and Inflation -- Inflation's True Costs -- II The Demand for Economic Outcomes -- 4 Public Concern about Inflation and Unemployment -- The Salience of the Economy as a Public Issue -- The Distribution of Concern about Inflation and Unemployment in the General Electorate -- The Distribution of Concern about Inflation and Unemployment among Income, Occupational, and Partisan Groups -- 5 Macroeconomic Performance and Mass Political Support for the President -- The Political Support Model -- Empirical Results -- A Concluding Word on the Economy and Political Support for Presidents -- 6 Economic Performance and the 1980 and 1984 Elections -- Landslide Elections in Recent History -- Election Cycle Economics in 1980 and 1984 -- Rule-of-Thumb Statistical Models for Presidential Voting Outcomes.
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674038639
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674027367
Additional Edition:
Print version American Political Economy : Macroeconomics and Electoral Politics in the United States
Language:
English
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