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Party Cues in Elections under Multi-Level Governance: Theory and Evidence from US States

Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/222910
Date
2014
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Original version
Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(2014)4: 1029-1058   10.1111/jeea.12081
Abstract
In federal countries, voters’ ability to evaluate the performance of their leaders might be reduced when different levels of government shape policy outcomes. This can blur political accountability.

In this article, we analyze how party cues (i.e., politicians’ party membership acting as a cue towards their characteristics) affect voters’ incomplete information in a federal setting.We theoretically show that party cues allow indirect inference regarding politicians using observed policy outcomes, and can alleviate the accountability problem. Empirical evidence from US presidential election results

across all 50 US states over the period 1972–2008 supports this proposition. However, party cues also

have a downside in that they may reduce politicians’ effort, particularly when politicians at different

levels of government are from different parties.
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This is the authors’ accepted, refereed and final manuscript to the article. The final publication is available at www.elsevier.com
Publisher
Wiley
Journal
Journal of the European Economic Association

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