Citizen engagement and political trust in LAC

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dc.contributor.MentorSosa Escudero, Walter
dc.creator.AutorPecorari, Natalia
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-09T15:30:34Z
dc.date.available2022-11-09T15:30:34Z
dc.date.issued2022-07
dc.descriptionFil: Pecorari, Natalia. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.
dc.description.abstractBy examining responses to the Latinobarometro 2020 survey, this paper advances the understanding of the linkage between trust in government and citizen participation in Latin- America and the Caribbean (LAC). Conflicting theories address this linkage: stealth democracy proponents argue that an inverse relationship exist between political trust and citizen engagement, whilst deliberative democracy theorists claim that the opposite is true. In light of this opposing views, we seek to determine which theory most accurately describes this relationship in LAC. We rely on both traditional econometrics and more sophisticated machine learning techniques to identify the key factors driving the linkage between trust in government and citizen involvement in LAC. We find that socioeconomic status drives participation and that whether deliberative or stealth democracy is more effective in explaining engagement depends on the type of participation forum. Importantly, intricate non-linear patterns affect citizen participation.
dc.description.abstractKeywords: Citizen participation; political trust; Stealth democracy; Latin-America and Caribbean; Machine learning; Lasso; Random Forest.
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dc.identifier.citationPecorari, N. (2022). Citizen engagement and political trust in LAC. [Tesis de maestría, Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía]. Repositorio Digital San Andrés. http://hdl.handle.net/10908/22795
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10908/22795
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleCitizen engagement and political trust in LAC
dc.typeTesis
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
dc.typeinfo:ar-repo/semantics/tesis de maestría
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersion
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