Personal Finances and Voting Behavior

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Abstract
Four major shortcomings of existing studies of the presumed linkage between personal economic circumstances and voting decisions are discerned. These shortcomings leave open the possibility that hypotheses premised on "rational economic man" which have received minimal empirical support to this point may nonetheless be valid. However, when these shortcomings are corrected and a wide range of different hypotheses concerning this linkage are tested, there is still negligible empirical support.

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