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Do voters respond to political parties׳ promises or to their past actions? We use a suitable sequence of events in …. The Social Democrats won both elections and delivered on both promises. Using voting among parents with slightly older … children as counterfactual, we find that voters with young children responded markedly to economic promises rather than to …