Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy: Citizens, Processes and Outcomes (Elements in Campaigns and Elections)

Daoust, Jean-François; Nadeau, Richard

ISBN 10: 1009454463 / ISBN 13: 9781009454469

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy: Citizens, Processes and Outcomes (Elements in Campaigns and Elections)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009454463
• ISBN 13: 9781009454469
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.