Government Stability and Regime Support: A Cross-National Analysis

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This article is an attempt to begin to fill the void in the empirical political science literature concerning the direction and strength of the hypothesized bond between government stability and support for the democratic regime. Alternative measures of government stability are considered, and four are chosen and used throughout the analyses based on data for nine EEC countries. Substantial relationships are found to exist in predictable directions, and those relationships remain for "passive" measures of satisfaction even when controls for legislative fractionalization and macroeconomic performance are introduced. Evidence is provided, however, which suggests that relationships between government change and support for "radical change" in the system may be spurious, resulting from relationships of both variables with macroeconomic performance.

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