Procedures Matter: Strong Voice, Evaluations of Policy Performance, and Regime Support.
Many scholars assume that policy performance determines popular support for political systems. Yet in the wake of recent economic crises, patterns of performance and regime support have diverged in many countries, and popular perceptions of performance often fail to reflect the actual quality of gov...
| Published in: | Political Studies Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 412 - 434 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
May2021
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