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A study of the effect of local magnetic shear on the drift wave stability is presented. The eigenvalue problem for the drift wave equation is solved numerically in fully three-dimensional stellarator plasma using the ballooning mode formalism. It is found that negative local magnetic shear has a stabilizing effect on the drift wave instability and positive local shear is destabilizing. This is in agreement with the effect of negative global magnetic shear in tokamaks and also agrees with the simple estimates. As a consequence the highly unstable modes found on a specific magnetic surface are localized in the region of positive local magnetic shear.
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