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Editor's Introduction for Forecasting the 2013 German Elections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2013

Bruno Jérôme
Bruno Jérôme*
Affiliation:
University of Paris II, IRGEI-LARGEPA Paris II- FR, guest editor
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In the past 40 years an extensive literature has grown up around aggregate political economy models of elections, but few articles have focused on the German case. Initially, Kirchgässner (1977; 1991), developed vote-popularity (VP) functions, with the unemployment rate as the dominant economic variable predicting the German ruling parties' performance. Thereafter, using vote functions (VF) from 1961 to 1994, Jérôme, Jérôme-Speziari, and Lewis-Beck (2001) tested the “yardstick” competition existing between French and German economic votes.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 477 - 478
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