01717pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002100040245010700061260000900168300001300177362000800190520112900198650003001327650001401357773003301371909001001404999001701414952010401431180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aArceneaux, Kevin  aThe conditional impact of blame attribution on the relationship between economic adversity and turnout  c2003  ap.67-75.  aMar  aPrevious research has found that those facing economic adversity are less likely to vote. This has serious implications for the nature of democratic accountability, since those who are less likely to vote in an economic downturn may also be the ones most likely to punish the incumbent party. In fact, some have used aggregated electoral data to justify such a claim (Racliff 1994). However, such conclusions are premature. Once the intervening effects of blame attribution are taken into consideration, there are conditions under which economic adversity actually enhances turnout. Data from the American National Election Studies 91990-98) demonstrate that those facing economic adversity are more likely to vote when they blame the government for economic outcomes. These are the same people who have been shown in numerous economic voting studies to be much less supportive of the in-party. These findings suggest that economic adversity does not necessarily constrain democratic accountability and highlight the perils associated with making inferences about individual-level behavior with aggregate data. - Reproduced.  aElections - United States  aElections  aPolitical Research Quarterly  a56523  c56523d56523  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 56, Issue no: 1pAR56968r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR