Values, the Economy and Metaeconomics in the 2000 US Presidential Election: A Historical Perspective (1896-1996)
Conventional wisdom holds that the outcomes of U. S. Presidential elections are positively related to the state of the American economy. The eight years of the Clinton-Gore administration (1992-2000) witnessed sustained growth and employment with price stability. Given the conventional wisdom, Gore...
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| Language: | English |
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2001
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Intellectual discourse
Year: 2001, Volume: 9, Issue: 1 |
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| Summary: | Conventional wisdom holds that the outcomes of U. S. Presidential elections are positively related to the state of the American economy. The eight years of the Clinton-Gore administration (1992-2000) witnessed sustained growth and employment with price stability. Given the conventional wisdom, Gore should have won with ease; but he did not. This phenomenon raises two fundamental questions: (1) Either the conventional wisdom is a myth; or (2) For a good percentage of voters, the economy was not the deciding factor in 2000. A quick review of U.S presidential elections over the last one hundred years (1896-1996) reveals that the conventional wisdom is not a myth. A detailed analysis of the Presidential election 2000 shows that for a good percentage of voters the main issue was not the economy, rather moral values and metaeconomics. |
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| ISSN: | 2289-5639 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Intellectual discourse
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