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Losers' Consent
Elections and Democratic Legitimacy
Christopher J. Anderson, André Blais, Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan, and Ola Listhaug
234 pages
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numerous tables and figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-923200-0
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Paperback
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25 October 2007
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- Novel focus on the attitudes of election losers towards government
- Helps explain why unhappy losers go along with an unsatisfactory election outcome
- Broad coverage of new and established contemporary democracies from around the world
Democratic elections are designed to create unequal outcomes: for some to win, others have to lose. This book examines the consequences of this inequality for the legitimacy of democratic political institutions and systems. Using survey data collected in democracies around the globe, the authors argue that losing generates ambivalent attitudes towards political authorities. Because the efficacy and ultimately the survival of democratic regimes can be seriously threatened if the losers do not consent to their loss, the central themes of this book focus on losing: how losers respond to their loss and how institutions shape losing. While there tends to be a gap in support for the political system between winners and losers, it is not ubiquitous. The book
paints a picture of losers' consent that portrays losers as political actors whose experience and whose incentives to accept defeat are shaped both by who they are as individuals as well as the political environment in which loss is given meaning.
Given that the winner-loser gap in legitimacy is a persistent feature of democratic politics, the findings presented in this book contain crucial implications for our understanding of the functioning and stability of democracies.
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. The General Editors are Professor Alfio Mastropaolo, University of Turin and Kenneth Newton, University of Southampton and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin .
The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.Readership: Scholars and students of political science, especially those interested in comparative politics, political behaviour, democracy studies, and election studies
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Christopher J. Anderson, Department of Government, Cornell University, André Blais, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Shaun Bowler, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, Todd Donovan, Department of Political Science, Western Washington University, and Ola Listhaug, Department of Sociology and Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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"All in all this is an interesting book which deserves to be read." - Robert Klemmensen Political Studies Review
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Preface
1: Winning isn't Everything: Losers' Consent and Democratic Legitimacy
Part 1: The Winner-Loser Gap
2: Political Legitimacy and the Winner-Loser Gap
3: The Winner-Loser Gap: Contours and Boundaries
4: The Dynamics of Losers' Consent: Persistance and Change in the Winner-Loser Gap
Part 2: Understanding Differences in Losers' Consent
5: Individual Differences in Losers' Consent
6: Winning and Losing in Old and New Democracies
7: How Political Institutions Shape Losers' Consent
8: Comparing Losers' Assessments of Electoral Democracy
9: Losing and Support for Institutional Change
10: Conclusion: Graceful Losers and the Democratic Bargain
Appendix
References
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