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Do Multi-Party Municipal Councils Improve Local Governance? Municipal Councillors’ Opinions in El Salvador
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Abstract As decentralisation reforms devolved greater responsibilities to local governments, improving local governance has become central to strengthening democracy. With the promise of increasing citizen representation and government transparency at the local level, in 2015 El Salvador implemented a new el... mehr
As decentralisation reforms devolved greater responsibilities to local governments, improving local governance has become central to strengthening democracy. With the promise of increasing citizen representation and government transparency at the local level, in 2015 El Salvador implemented a new electoral system. The new system allowed for the election of opposition parties in municipal councils for the first time. In the context of El Salvador, we examine how opposition parties’ numerical representation influences the views of governing and opposition party members about multi-party councils’ effectiveness to improve local governance. To test our hypotheses, we rely on data from an original elite survey of 303 municipal councillors in 101 municipalities, which we complement with qualitative information. Contrary to what the literature suggests, we do not find evidence that a stronger opposition leads to more negative evaluations among members of governing parties, notwithstanding the country’s polarised party system.... weniger
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
El Salvador; local governance; elite survey; decentralisation; local political institutions
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 192-218
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 13 (2021) 2
ISSN
1868-4890
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)