Title
Procedures Matter: Strong Voice, Evaluations of Policy Performance, and Regime Support
Description
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 governance. To resolve these paradoxes, I draw on recent scholarship on regime support and procedural fairness. I show that strong voice (the ability of citizens to influence political outcomes and a key element of procedural justice in democracies) influences regime support in a way not accounted for in this literature: by moderating the relationship between policy performance and perceptions of performance. These findings show that people will evaluate equivalent outcomes more favorably if they are produced using fair procedures. As performance has long been shown to positively influence support, procedural justice has an additional, indirect influence on people’s attitudes toward political systems.
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Publisher
figshare SAGE Publications
DOI
10.25384/sage.c.4938441
Document Type
Data Set
Recommended Citation
Rhodes-Purdy, Matthew (2020), "Procedures Matter: Strong Voice, Evaluations of Policy Performance, and Regime Support", figshare SAGE Publications, doi: 10.25384/sage.c.4938441
https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.4938441
Identifier
10.25384/sage.c.4938441
Embargo Date
1-1-2020