Regime Support Beyond the Balance Sheet - Participation and Policy Performance in Latin America

Offers a new theory of regime support to explain why citizen support for regimes does not always match policy performance.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Conceptualizations and existing explanations of regime support; 3. Participatory opportunities, efficacy, and regime support; 4. Attitudinal antecedents of regime support: a statistical analysis; 5. Participatory populism: hegemony, self-governance, and regime support in Bolivarian Venezuela; 6. The other liberalism: laissez-faire, protected democracy, and support in Chile; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

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.

Summary

This book resolves one of Latin America's must difficult public opinion puzzles: the discrepancy between policy performance and regime support in Chile and Venezuela. Using insights drawn from democratic theory and social psychology, it shows that participation inflated support in Venezuela, while inhibiting it in Chile.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Rhodes Purdy, Matthew Rhodes-Purdy, Matthew (Washington University Rhodes-Purdy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781108420259
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42025-9
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Comparative Politics, The Americas, Constitution: government and the state