کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1052235 946378 2011 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Electoral losers revisited – How citizens react to defeat at the ballot box
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم اجتماعی جغرافیا، برنامه ریزی و توسعه
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Electoral losers revisited – How citizens react to defeat at the ballot box
چکیده انگلیسی

The paper seeks to reconcile insights from winner–loser gap research with mainstream understanding of election legitimacy. The paper acknowledges that winning and losing elections creates differential incentives for citizens to remain supportive of their political system, but it argues that losers nevertheless have enough reasons to remain supportive in absolute terms. Drawing on democratic theory, the paper develops a rationale for why citizens are willing to accept electoral defeat voluntarily, and suggest a new way to conceptualize citizen reactions to election outcomes. It presents findings from a sample of election studies in established democracies to show that winners typically become more supportive whereas losers at minimum retain their level of support from before the election. It concludes that elections, when reasonably well executed, as they most often are in established democracies, build system support rather than undermine it.


► Losers will remain supportive provided that certain conditions are fulfilled.
► The crucial conditions are procedurial and consequential.
► Elections in established democracies typically build system support among both winners and losers

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Electoral Studies - Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 102–113
نویسندگان
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