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Series:   Elements in Campaigns and Elections

Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy

Citizens, Processes and Outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2023

Jean-François Daoust  and
Richard Nadeau
Jean-François Daoust
Affiliation:
Université de Sherbrooke École de politique appliquée Sherbrooke, Quebec
Richard Nadeau
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal Political Science, Quebec

Summary

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.
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satisfaction with democracyelectionspolitical behaviourwinner–loser gapLosers’ consent
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Series: Elements in Campaigns and Elections
Online ISBN: 9781009128032
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 05 October 2023

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