Democratizing urban governance through mayoral term limits: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Chilean municipalities

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F23%3A50020794" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/23:50020794 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11210/23:10466314
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104446" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104446</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104446" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cities.2023.104446</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Democratizing urban governance through mayoral term limits: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Chilean municipalities
Original language description
Term limits on elected mayors are often advocated because they eliminate the incumbency advantage and promote higher representativeness and citizen participation through a more open and reinvigorated electoral competition in local governments. We examine whether key dimensions of local democracy (election competitiveness, turnout, invalid voting, descriptive representation of women) are affected by the imposition of term limits. This article uses a quasi-experimental technique (difference-in-differences design) which leverages a unique and rare institutional reform in Chile that exogenously imposed term limits on some - but not all - mayors in 2020. The as-good-as random assignment of municipalities to either group allows to exploit comparisons which yield robust causal estimates. The overall contribution of term limits to local democracy has been positive because they promote electoral competition, the emergence of female candidates and voter participation, as well as reduce invalid voting rates.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

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)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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