Matthew Rhodes-Purdy

Regime Support Beyond the Balance Sheet

Participation and Policy Performance in Latin America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781108413305
• ISBN-10: 1108413307
• Artikelnr.: 58665686

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.