Beyond the Balance Sheet: Performance, Participation, and Regime Support in Latin America

Rhodes-Purdy, Matthew

doi:10.5129/001041517820201350

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“…Extant research in democracies has shown that by extending participatory opportunities to citizens, governments can improve support and perceptions of efficacy (cf. Rhodes-Purdy, 2017a, 2017b). Rather than being concerned simply about the outcome of government decision making, citizens gain utility from whether they are involved—at least nominally—in decision-making.…”

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Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia

Chapman

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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How do autocrats build support? This study argues that autocrats create and maintain participatory technologies—elite-mass communication strategies that promote two-way interaction between citizens and leaders—to foster support. Participatory technologies provide citizens with the opportunity to have a limited voice in otherwise closed political systems. I test this theory through a series of two nationally-representative survey experiments in Russia. Results suggest that awareness of participatory technologies increases approval of President Putin and improves perceptions that there are opportunities for voice in politics. This finding departs from previous research that suggests public opinion is influenced primarily by participation. Furthermore, I demonstrate that these effects can be directly attributed to the communicative format of these strategies, not to issue resolution or leadership effects. Finally, I demonstrate that effects are dependent upon individuals’ political sophistication and political priors, contributing to political polarization and opening up the potential for backlash against the regime.

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Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia

Chapman

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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“…LAPOP has the advantage over other regional surveys of including a large number of indicators of regime performance that have been validated extensively (Booth and Seligson, 2009;Rhodes-Purdy, 2017a, 2017b. The survey also includes measures of RBE that have been studied and validated on other large surveys (Craig et al, 1990).…”

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Procedures Matter: Strong Voice, Evaluations of Policy Performance, and Regime Support

Rhodes-Purdy

2020

Political Studies

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Many scholars assume that policy performance determines popular support for political systems. Yet in the wake of recent economic crises, patterns of performance and regime support have diverged in many countries, and popular perceptions of performance often fail to reflect the actual quality of governance. To resolve these paradoxes, I draw on recent scholarship on regime support and procedural fairness. I show that strong voice (the ability of citizens to influence political outcomes and a key element of procedural justice in democracies) influences regime support in a way not accounted for in this literature: by moderating the relationship between policy performance and perceptions of performance. These findings show that people will evaluate equivalent outcomes more favorably if they are produced using fair procedures. As performance has long been shown to positively influence support, procedural justice has an additional, indirect influence on people’s attitudes toward political systems.

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“…Magalhães ( and ) shows how “satisfaction with democracy” at the national level is less driven by perceptions of economic improvements — either individually perceived or objectively assessed — under conditions of high procedural fairness. Rhodes‐Purdy () shows that the relationship between regime performance and regime support are moderated by subjective evaluations of procedures. Magalhães and Aguiar‐Conraria () show that perceived economic performance is a weaker correlate of government approval when high fairness conditions prevail, while GDP growth becomes unrelated with incumbent vote share in high fairness contexts.…”

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Transparency, Policy Outcomes, and Incumbent Support

Aguiar‐Conraria

Magalhães

Veiga³

2019

Kyklos

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Summary Government transparency has been discussed both as a way to decrease informational asymmetries between officeholders and citizens and as part of what makes for procedurally fair governance. These two different lines of argument generate predictions about how transparency should change voters’ reactions to economic and policy outcomes. First, under high transparency, voters should respond less positively to fiscal expansions. Second, they should become more sensitive to incumbents’ ability to deliver outcomes that generate benefits in the long‐run than to current tangible benefits. We test these arguments using municipality level data in Portugal. Controlling for variables that previous research has shown to drive electoral support for incumbents in local elections, only in the least transparent municipalities is support positively related with increases in local current expenditures, budget deficits, and municipal wages. Instead, where transparency is higher, voters are more likely to reward improvements in the quality of education.

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Beyond the Balance Sheet: Performance, Participation, and Regime Support in Latin America

Cited by 14 publications

References 92 publications

Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia

Shoring Up Autocracy: Participatory Technologies and Regime Support in Putin’s Russia

Procedures Matter: Strong Voice, Evaluations of Policy Performance, and Regime Support

Transparency, Policy Outcomes, and Incumbent Support

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