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Matthew Rhodes-Purdy - Regime Support Beyond the Balance Sheet, Inbunden

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Regime Support Beyond the Balance Sheet

Participation and Policy Performance in Latin America

Av Matthew Rhodes-Purdy

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Beskrivning
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that policy performance is the most important determinant of regime support. It does so by focusing on two countries where performance and support do not match. Chile is the economic envy of every country in Latin America, yet support has been surprisingly anemic. By contrast, Venezuela managed to maintain extremely high levels of support during the reign of Hugo Chávez despite severe failures of governance. Resolution of these paradoxes requires turning away from policy decisions and focusing instead on how those decisions are made. Taking inspiration from democratic theory and social psychology, this book argues that extensive opportunities for direct participation in the political process engenders in citizens strong feelings of efficacy - a sense of control over the course of politics. Rhodes-Purdy uses a mixed-methods approach to test this theory, including qualitative case studies, analysis of survey data, and experimental methods.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-10-19
  • Mått: 157 x 235 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 520 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 278
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108420259
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Matthew Rhodes-Purdy is a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University, St Louis. He received his Ph.D. in government from the University of Texas, Austin. He is an alumnus of the Fulbright Student Program in Chile. His research interests include legitimacy and regime support, populism, and participatory governance. His work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Latin American Research Review and Political Studies.

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'This book offers a bold challenge to conventional thinking about what democracies need to do to generate and maintain public support. Rhodes-Purdy draws from democratic theory and social psychology to argue that citizens expect more than policy effectiveness from their rulers; popular support also depends on opportunities to participate in collective decision-making processes. He employs an impressive array of methodological tools to develop and test his arguments, and his comparative analysis of Chile and Venezuela offers a novel interpretation of highly paradoxical cases. At a time when citizen disenchantment with even well-established democracies seems to be on the rise, Rhodes-Purdy provides a provocative and compelling case for why participation matters.' Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University

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