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Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy

Citizens, Processes and Outcomes

Richard Nadeau author Jean-François Daoust author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:5th Oct '23

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This Element is a study of the relationships between the electoral process, outcomes, and citizens' satisfaction with democracy.

The Element shows that elections do not only have different impacts on citizens' satisfaction with democracy, but that the nature of the meaning attributed to electoral processes and outcomes varies between emergent and established democracies.Satisfaction with democracy is a vastly studied research topic. In this Element, the authors aim to make sense of this context by showing that elections (electoral processes and outcomes) influence citizens' satisfaction with democracy in different ways according to the quality of a democratic regime. To do so, they leverage the datasets from the Comparative Study on Electoral Systems (CSES) and uphold the belief that social scientists must take advantage of the increased availability of rich comparative datasets. The Element concludes that elections do not only have different impacts on citizens' satisfaction with democracy based on the quality of the democratic regime that they live in, but that the nature of the meaning attributed to electoral processes and outcomes varies between emergent and established democracies.

ISBN: 9781009124287

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 6mm

Weight: 150g

75 pages