Political Conditions for Electoral Accountability in Federalism
| Autor: | Fred Cutler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Public administration Affect (psychology) 0506 political science Politics Variation (linguistics) Voting Political science Accountability 050602 political science & public administration Federalism Attribution Media content media_common |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Political Science. 50:1037-1059 |
| ISSN: | 1744-9324 0008-4239 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0008423917000282 |
| Popis: | A theory of voting under federalism requires that attributions of responsibility moderate the strength of retrospective voting. Scholars have spotty evidence that voters do this but put this down to the effects of institutions and citizens’ capabilities. I show thatpoliticalvariation also affects electoral accountability. Using panel surveys across provincial and federal elections and qualitative media content analysis, I show that voters only live up to a federal theory of voting when governments make policy changes independent of the other level and those changes and their consequences are prominent in political discourse. Federal institutions affect electoral accountability through the politics that they generate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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