Foreign and European Policy Issues in the 2002 Bundestag Elections Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • Is it always the economy, or do external issues sometimes matter,too? Consistent with the Clinton campaign slogan of 1992, politicalscientists generally predict that domestic economic issues are primaryin determining election winners. This proposition, with its severalvariants, rests on many years of survey data and analysis thathave consistently indicated that international conditions and foreignpolicy rarely, if ever, rate highly in public concerns and thereforeseldom affect election outcomes.

publication date

  • March 1, 2003