Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy

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Autor(a) principal: Claassen, Christopher
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Magalhães, Pedro C.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/49646
Resumo: Ineffective governance is known to weaken support for governments and leaders. However, it is less clear whether these effects spill over to the regime and erode support for the democratic system. This article returns to this classic question, now using time-series, cross-sectional data to test whether the effectiveness of governments in sustaining economic growth, providing quality healthcare, and tackling violent crime affects popular attitudes to democracy. We find that satisfaction with democracy is driven by fluctuations in economic performance and violent crime (but not healthcare quality). Diffuse support for democracy, in contrast, remains relatively impervious to changes in government effectiveness. Violent crime is the only indicator of effectiveness which has an impact on democratic support, and does so indirectly, via its influence on democratic satisfaction. These findings confirm that democratic support—which, unlike democratic satisfaction, is thought to help sustain democracy—is mostly immune to crises of performance.
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title Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy
spellingShingle Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy
Claassen, Christopher
support for democracy
satisfaction with democracy
performance legitimacy
effective government
violent crime
healthcare quality
economic performance
title_short Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy
title_full Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy
title_fullStr Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy
title_full_unstemmed Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy
title_sort Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy
author Claassen, Christopher
author_facet Claassen, Christopher
Magalhães, Pedro C.
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author2 Magalhães, Pedro C.
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Claassen, Christopher
Magalhães, Pedro C.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv support for democracy
satisfaction with democracy
performance legitimacy
effective government
violent crime
healthcare quality
economic performance
topic support for democracy
satisfaction with democracy
performance legitimacy
effective government
violent crime
healthcare quality
economic performance
description Ineffective governance is known to weaken support for governments and leaders. However, it is less clear whether these effects spill over to the regime and erode support for the democratic system. This article returns to this classic question, now using time-series, cross-sectional data to test whether the effectiveness of governments in sustaining economic growth, providing quality healthcare, and tackling violent crime affects popular attitudes to democracy. We find that satisfaction with democracy is driven by fluctuations in economic performance and violent crime (but not healthcare quality). Diffuse support for democracy, in contrast, remains relatively impervious to changes in government effectiveness. Violent crime is the only indicator of effectiveness which has an impact on democratic support, and does so indirectly, via its influence on democratic satisfaction. These findings confirm that democratic support—which, unlike democratic satisfaction, is thought to help sustain democracy—is mostly immune to crises of performance.
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