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The local connection: local government performance and satisfication with democracy in Argentina

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In light of extensive decentralization in much of the world, analyses of citizen satisfaction with democracy that treat citizens as subjects of their national governments alone are incomplete. In this article,the author uses regression analysis of unique survey data from Argentina to explore the relationship between local government performance and citizen satisfaction with democracy. She demonstrates that there is indeed an important link between local government performance and citizen system support but also that citizens distinguish between qualitatively different types of government performance. Certain measures of local government performance, such as corruption, have ramifications for citizens' evaluations of the functioning of their democracy and even for citizens' faith in democracy per se. At the same time, other types of local government performance, such as local bureaucratic inefficiency, do not reverberate beyond the local sphere. These results suggest mixed implications for future democratic stability in Latin America.

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Comparative Political Studies

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California : Sage Publications., 2008

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English

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00104140

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Vol. 41, No. 3, March 2008. Page 285-308

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Democracy
Public opinion
Sunnational politics
Government performance
Argentina
The Local Connection

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