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Тема доклада: The importance of Economic Issues in Politics: A cross-country analysis
Докладчик: А. В. Захаров (НИУ ВШЭ)

Аннотация:

In this paper, I investigate the economic, institutional, and cultural factors that determine how much time political parties spend discussing economic issues, mainly concerning the redistribution of wealth and the production of public goods, and non-economic issues, concerning matters such as morality and human empowerment.

I use the Comparative Manifesto Project data to estimate the positions of political parties for two policy dimensions (economic and non-economic) for 40 countries over the post-WW2 period. I then test the hypothesis whether the salience of the economic issues (operationalized as the combined weight of leftist and rightist statements on the economy in the CMP data), averaged over all parties in a given country in a given period, declines with the country's level of economic development. This hypothesis is confirmed, but only for the countries with high levels of interpersonal trust. The effect is robust with respect to the inclusion of country and decade dummies into the regeression, and a variety of alternative specifications. Short-term economic shocks are also found to increase the salience of economic issues. The effect of trust and income on the salience of non-economic issues is the reverse of their effect on the salience of economic issues. Analysis of individual-level data from World Values Survey complements the findings.

 

Рабочий язык: английский