Democracy and Government Performance: Holding Incumbents Accountable in English Local Governments*

By George A. Boyne, O. James, P. John, Nicolai Petrovsky. Journal of Politics, 2009

172 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Benchmarks and Citizen Judgments of Local Government Performance: Findings from a survey experiment (2015, background): “In a study of the response of citizens to government performance in English local elections (Boyne et al. 2009) found that ‘the electorates react to broad levels of performance rather than more fine-grained measures’ (p. 1281).”
• Citizen (Dis)satisfaction: An Experimental Equivalence Framing Study (2015, background): “Boyne et al. (2009) found evidence of a negativity bias in the eff ect of municipal performance information on electoral support among English local governments. James and John (2007), also in an English local government setting, found that voters primarily punished poor performance and did not rewa”
• Compared to What? How Social and Historical Reference Points Affect Citizens’ Performance Evaluations (2017, background): “The negativity bias has also been found relevant for understanding how citizens respond to performance information (Boyne et al. 2009; James 2011a; James and Moseley 2014).”