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Losers' Consent - Elections and Democratic Legitimacy (Paperback)
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Losers' Consent - Elections and Democratic Legitimacy (Paperback)
Series: Comparative Politics
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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.
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