We tend to think that incumbents always win elections. Yet, recently, incumbents have been ousted from office across the world. Focusing on Latin America, this book demonstrates that 'incumbency bias' emerges because democracy creates a mismatch between citizens' expectations and incumbents' capacity to deliver.
We tend to think that incumbents always win elections. Yet, recently, incumbents have been ousted from office across the world. Focusing on Latin America, this book demonstrates that 'incumbency bias' emerges because democracy creates a mismatch between citizens' expectations and incumbents' capacity to deliver.
Luis Schiumerini is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He is the co-editor of Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies (2019) and his research has appeared in The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution and Perspectives on Politics.
Inhaltsangabe
1. The puzzle of incumbency bias 2. Bounded accountability: a theory of incumbency bias 3. Too big to succeed: incumbency disadvantage in Brazilian municipalities 4. Commodity shocks and incumbency disadvantage in rural Brazil 5. When capacity meets authority: the incumbency advantage of southern cone governors 6. With narrow scope comes great advantage: incumbency bias in Chile 7. Microfoundations of incumbency bias: evidence from survey experiments 8. incumbency bias and democracy References Appendices.
1. The puzzle of incumbency bias 2. Bounded accountability: a theory of incumbency bias 3. Too big to succeed: incumbency disadvantage in Brazilian municipalities 4. Commodity shocks and incumbency disadvantage in rural Brazil 5. When capacity meets authority: the incumbency advantage of southern cone governors 6. With narrow scope comes great advantage: incumbency bias in Chile 7. Microfoundations of incumbency bias: evidence from survey experiments 8. incumbency bias and democracy References Appendices.
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