Book Chapter

Happiness and voting behaviour

By George Ward

Edited by John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs

Publication details

Publication date
Series or book
World happiness report 2019
Series or chapter number
No. 3
Pages
pp. 46–65
Publisher
Sustainable Development Solutions Network
ISBN
978-0-9968513-9-8
View on worldhappiness.report

Summary

Asks how the happiness of citizens affects whether and how people participate in voting

Notes

References: Alabrese, E., Becker, S.O., Fetzer, T., and Novy, D. (2019) ‘Who voted for Brexit? Individual and regional data combined’, European Journal of Political Economy, 56:132-150. ; Liberini, F., Oswald, A.J., Proto, E., and Redoano, M. (2017) Was Brexit caused by the unhappy and the old?, IZA Discussion Papers, No. 11059. Bonn: IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

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