It's the government's fault: a cross-section study of economic voting in Denmark, 1990-93 - Nannestad, Peter (Okonomisk Institut, 1993)
The relationship between voter's support for the government and fourteen items tapping their evaluation of the economic situation is analyzed. One data set is collected under Conservative rule and another under Social Democratic rule. The answers are first aggregated into three factors. Two are egotropic: a- gives the economic situation of the family and b- covers its unemployment situation. The third is sociotropic c- gives peoples' worry about the economic development in the country. The impact of e- is strongly significant, and greater tha found in comparable studies. The Danish welfare man demands collective solutions to individual grievances. f- is mostly significant, but it proves hard to get. h- significant. We have thus found a clear case of pocketbook voting