Subnational State Capacity and Trust in Governmental Responses to COVID-19: Survey Evidence From Mexico

• In Event: The State, Clientelism and Populism in Latin America

Brief Overview

We argue that subjective perceptions of state capacity, based on how citizens view the effectiveness of local services, strongly shape how they evaluate the national government’s response to COVID-19. We test this using experimental data from Mexico.

Authors

• David Neil Lopez, New York University

• Thomas Ricardo Vargas, McMaster University