Voters who vote against an incumbent during a bad economic time exemplify:

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Voters who vote against an incumbent during a bad economic time exemplify retrospective voting. Retrospective voting-sometimes called the "What have you done for me lately?" phenomenon-is when voters choose based on their own experience in the past few years. This can either be good or bad for the incumbent. For example, Ronald Reagan's unofficial campaign slogan in 1984 was "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" and he won reelection in a landslide.

Voters Who Vote Against an Incumbent During a Bad Economic