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Satisfaction with the Political Domain of Local Government in a Contemporary British City
Author(s) -
Broadstock David C.,
Collins Alan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12192
Subject(s) - politics , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , local government , logit , survey data collection , public policy , economics , domain (mathematical analysis) , sociology , work (physics) , political science , public economics , positive economics , political economy , economy , economic growth , public administration , geography , econometrics , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , archaeology
This paper explores satisfaction with the political domain of local government performance, using survey data from a contemporary British city as the empirical context. It employs a factor‐augmented ordered logit analysis of data emerging from a representative city‐wide series of over 1,000 household interviews. Affective reactions to local economic performance and policy effectiveness are constructed in the spirit of the approach used in earlier work by social scientists. The key significant influences that raise or depress satisfaction at this geographical level are presented. Affective reactions to past policy and the economy are both shown to be statistically significant, but with reactions to the economy being negative while those for other policy reactions seemingly positive.