Duplik zum Beitrag von Klaus Armingeon: "Ökonomische Erklärungen des Verhaltens bei aussenpolitischen Abstimmungen. Eine Kritik der Analyse von Aymo Brunetti, Markus Jaggi und Rolf Weder"

Klaus Armingeon criticizes our paper "Distribution Effects of Opening up an Economy and Voting Behaviour: An Analysis Based on the Example of the Swiss Vote on the EEA" published in this journal in 1998. In this reply we argue that his critique is mainly due to a misinterpretation of the goal of our paper: we did not try to find the most important determinant by regressing the voting behaviour on all possible variables that might determine it. We rather tested whether the variable of interest from the perspective of a particular, simplifying theory is and remains significant under a number of circumstances. On this background, Armingeon''s analysis of a different date set does not question, but rather reinforces our main result.