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The Sources of Democratic Responsiveness in Mexico

The Sources of Democratic Responsiveness in Mexico

Cleary, Matthew R.

Paperback

Series: Kellogg Institute Democracy and Development

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0268023018
ISBN13: 9780268023010
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Mar 31 2010
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Matthew Cleary investigates the political sources of improved government responsiveness in contemporary Mexico. He draws on existing theoretical frameworks that explain responsiveness (the degree to which government output matches public preferences) as a function of electoral accountability mechanisms, direct participatory pressure, or a combination of the two. Cleary demonstrates that electoral competition is not the cause of improved responsiveness among Mexican municipal governments. Instead, he attributes responsiveness in the 1980s and 1990s to a prior qualitative shift in participatory politics that began in the 1970s and continues to this day. The inability of electoral competition to improve responsiveness is, Cleary argues, a function of Mexico's political institutions. The book demonstrates the implications of thinking broadly about the variety of strategies that citizens use, on a daily basis, to influence the behavior of politicians.

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