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For Everything There is a Season: Seasonality and Retrospective Voting in African Elections

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Comparative Political Studies

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Abstract

Comparative Political Studies, Ahead of Print.
Are African elections subject to seasonal effects? I argue that agricultural seasonality patterns election outcomes by influencing voters’ retrospective performance evaluations. When countries hold elections after harvests, voters reward incumbents. As ...