Population and Politics

Gerring, John; Veenendaal, Wouter

doi:10.1017/9781108657099

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“…However, these grievances connect with trust because the key image of government in people's lives is a national government consisting of outsiders. People express higher trust the more localized the institution that they are asked about (Gerring and Veenendaal, 2020), partly because the political actors involved are "like us" not "like them, " and expected to be more sympathetic to and knowledgeable about their constituents. Decentralization may thus curb the damaging effects of place-based grievances on national politics.…”

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confidence: 99%

Political Trust in the “Places That Don't Matter”

2021

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A popular explanation for the recent success of right-wing populist candidates, parties and movements is that this is the “revenge of the places that don't matter”. Under this meso-level account, as economic development focuses on increasingly prosperous cities, voters in less dynamic and rural areas feel neglected by the political establishment, and back radical change. However, this premise is typically tested through the analysis of voting behavior rather than directly through citizens' feelings of political trust, and non-economic sources of grievance are not explored. We develop place-oriented measures of trust, perceived social marginality and perceived economic deprivation. We show that deprived and rural areas of Britain indeed lack trust in government. However, the accompanying sense of grievance for each type of area is different. Modeling these as separate outcomes, our analysis suggests that outside of cities, people lack trust because they feel socially marginal, whereas people in deprived areas lack trust owing to a combination of perceived economic deprivation and perceived social marginality. Our results speak to the need to recognize diversity among the “places that don't matter,” and that people in these areas may reach a similar outlook on politics for different reasons.

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Political Trust in the “Places That Don't Matter”

2021

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“…Finally, at the country level, there is a consistently negative and significant relationship between inter-ethnic marriage and population size, such that more populous countries have lower rates of inter-marriage. This novel finding is possibly driven by the scale effects discussed above (Gerring & Veenendaal, 2020), inasmuch as more populous ethnic groups are more self-reliant and thus their members may interact less with members of other groups. One obvious implication of this finding is that population growth could have a dampening effect on inter-ethnic marriage within Africa; however, this relationship remains a topic for further research.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Finally, we also observe an inverse correlation between country population size and inter-ethnic marriage, with low levels of inter-ethnic marriage in large countries such as Nigeria (with a population of 196 million people in 2018) and Kenya (44.9 million) and higher levels of inter-ethnic marriage in smaller countries such as Gabon (1.6 million) and Congo-Brazzaville (4.2 million). The theoretical basis for this correlation is that increasing scale does not necessarily lead to more ethnic fractionalization but could instead lead to a decline in social cohesion, inasmuch as each ethnic group becomes large enough that its members need rely less upon members of other groups for resources (Gerring & Veenendaal, 2020).…”

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Explaining inter‐ethnic marriage in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Bandyopadhyay

Green

2021

J of Intl Development

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We use Demographic and Health Survey data to undertake the largest ever examination into the causes of inter-ethnic marriage in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa and document a number of novel findings. First, we show that inter-ethnic marriage rates are high, at 19.4% on average, vary significantly across countries and are rising over time.Second, we show that individual variables associated with modernization such as urbanization, literacy/education and declines in polygamy and agricultural employment are correlated with inter-ethnic marriage. Third, we show that inter-ethnic marriage is quadratically correlated with ethnic group size and negatively correlated with both educational homogamy and country-population size.

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“…Leaving Parsons’ functionalist assumption aside, three specific mechanisms can be imagined to explain the link between size and clientelism (see Gerring and Veenendaal, in press). In the first place, small settings have higher levels of social intimacy and cohesion, and politicians and citizens are likely to know and interact with each other in multiple social roles (Ott, 2000; Tsai, 2007; Veenendaal, 2014; Wood, 1967).…”

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How Smallness Fosters Clientelism: A Case Study of Malta

Veenendaal

2019

Political Studies

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While it has long been assumed that smaller communities are more prone to particularistic politics, the relationship between state size and clientelism remains strongly undertheorized. Departing from the assumption that face-to-face contacts, overlapping role relations, stronger monitoring mechanisms, and the enhanced power of single votes contribute to the emergence of patron–client linkages, this article provides an in-depth case study of clientelism in Malta, the smallest member state of the European Union. The analysis reveals not only that patron–client linkages are a ubiquitous feature of political life in Malta, but also that the smallness of Malta strongly affects the functioning of clientelism by eliminating the need for brokers and enhancing the power of clients versus patrons. In addition, clientelism is found to be related to several other characteristics of Maltese politics, among which the sharp polarization between parties, extremely high turnout rates, profound executive dominance, and the incidence of corruption scandals.

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Population and Politics

Cited by 30 publications

References 717 publications

Political Trust in the “Places That Don't Matter”

Political Trust in the “Places That Don't Matter”

Explaining inter‐ethnic marriage in Sub‐Saharan Africa

How Smallness Fosters Clientelism: A Case Study of Malta

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