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'Government Responsiveness and Political Competition in Comparative Perspective'

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Governments in democratic systems are expected to respond to the issue preferences of citizens. Yet we have a limited understanding of the factors that cause levels of responsiveness to vary across time and between countries. In this article, the authors suggest that political contestation is the primary mechanism driving policy responsiveness and that this, in turn, is mediated by political institutions and government popularity. To test this proposition, the authors analyze the responsivene...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Department:
Politics and Int Relations
Role:
Author
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Journal:
Comparative Political Studies
Volume:
Vol. 41, 3
Pages:
309-337
Publication date:
2007-07-13
UUID:
uuid:361fa758-c50e-49ed-bc60-d42473e1960f
Local pid:
daisy:285
Source identifiers:
285
Deposit date:
2011-08-19

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