Municipal size and local democracy: understanding the trade-off between participation and contestation in Latin America
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F22%3A50018662" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/22:50018662 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.2013208" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.2013208</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.2013208" target="_blank" >10.1080/03003930.2021.2013208</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Municipal size and local democracy: understanding the trade-off between participation and contestation in Latin America
Original language description
Municipal size affects local democracy through two mechanisms – participation and contestation. By drawing on national-level theories of democracy, this article identifies a necessary tradeoff: decreasing municipal size maximises the participatory dimension of local democracy but reduces the level of contestation, which is similarly crucial for a healthy democracy. Employing multilevel models that simultaneously account for national-level and local-level influences, this proposition is tested using a large dataset of over 9,000 municipalities in 15 Latin American countries with competitive local elections. The evidence supports the operation of such a tradeoff in a regional comparison, and single-country analyses suggest that it is present with varying force in most countries of the region.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-02098S" target="_blank" >GA20-02098S: Political competition and local democracy in comparative perspective</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Local Government Studies
ISSN
0300-3930
e-ISSN
1743-9388
Volume of the periodical
48
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
951-972
UT code for WoS article
000728523600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85121358222