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CPB investigates, broadly speaking, the economic effects of the realization of various political parties’ programme intentions. The goals of the programmes, or of economic policy in general, are not under discussion. The significance that is usually attributed to CPB research illustrates the very dominant position of the economy in present-day politics. The part the impact calculus plays in the elections is largely determined by the prestige economic analyses have gained in politics. Economics has grown to control public life more and more. From home economics it evolved intσ state economics, but nowadays the economy is almost a synonym of the basic system on which society functions, and economics ranks as the pre-eminent social science. This orientation of politics on economics implies a narrowing down of the importance of the political as such, as I have amply demonstrated elsewhere.su1
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Van Erp, H.H.H. (2003). The Democratic Quality of Elections. In: Graafland, J.J., Ros, A.P. (eds) Economic Assessment of Election Programmes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0290-6_10
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