Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy

Nadeau, Richard; Daoust, Jean-François; Dassonneville, Ruth

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dc.contributor.author	Nadeau, Richard	de
dc.contributor.author	Daoust, Jean-François	de
dc.contributor.author	Dassonneville, Ruth	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-02T13:53:49Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-02T13:53:49Z
dc.date.issued	2023	de
dc.identifier.issn	1467-9248	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/91845
dc.description.abstract	Citizens who voted for a party that won the election are more satisfied with democracy than those who did not. This winner - loser gap has recently been found to vary with the quality of electoral democracy: the higher the quality of democracy, the smaller the gap. However, we do not know what drives this relationship. Is it driven by losers, winners, or both? And Why? Linking our work to the literature on motivated reasoning and macro salience and benefiting from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project - covering 163 elections in 51 countries between 1996 and 2018, our results show that the narrower winner - loser gap in well-established electoral democracies is not only a result of losers being more satisfied with democracy, but also of winners being less satisfied with their victory. Our findings carry important implications since a narrow winner - loser gap appears as a key feature of healthy democratic systems.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Political science	en
dc.subject.other	satisfaction with democracy; electoral democracy; winners; losers; abstainers; quality of democracy; motivated reasoning; Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)	de
dc.title	Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	Political Studies
dc.source.volume	71	de
dc.publisher.country	GBR	de
dc.source.issue	2	de
dc.subject.classoz	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject.classoz	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Demokratie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	democracy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Qualität	de
dc.subject.thesoz	quality	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Denken	de
dc.subject.thesoz	thinking	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Zufriedenheit	de
dc.subject.thesoz	satisfaction	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Wahlergebnis	de
dc.subject.thesoz	election result	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-91845-7
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	483-500	de
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211026189	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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