Recall Elections: A Tool of Accountability? Evidence from Peru

Michael Haman ()

Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2021, vol. 87, issue 3

Abstract: I examine the role of recall elections in Peruvian municipalities to evaluate whether they are used as a tool to increase political accountability. I test the theoretical assumptions of elite mobilization theory and other theories related to the functions of political parties and invalid votes. I use logistic regression to analyze a dataset with recall elections until 2013. The results show that recall elections were held most frequently in municipalities with high local elec¬torate party membership when the percentage of blank votes was low, and the margin of victory was low in previous municipal elections. The key vari¬ables for the successful removal of a mayor include the political experience of the organizer of a recall procedure, the number of null votes, and votes for the winner in previous municipal elections. Future research should build on these findings and further examine recall elections.

Keywords: accountability; democracy; elections; political parties; Peru . (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H70 H72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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