Electoral losers revisited - How citizens react to defeat at the ballot box
Electoral losers revisited - How citizens react to defeat at the ballot box
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DOI：
10.1016/j.electstud.2010.09.009
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Esaiasson, Peter
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作者：
Esaiasson, Peter
这篇论文试图调和赢家-输家差距研究的见解与对选举合法性的主流理解。白皮书承认，选举的胜利和失败为公民继续支持他们的政治制度创造了不同的激励机制，但它认为，输家仍然有足够的理由在绝对意义上继续支持他们。基于民主理论，本文提出了公民愿意自愿接受选举失败的理论基础，并提出了一种新的方法来概念化公民对选举结果的反应。它展示了对老牌民主国家的选举研究样本的发现，表明胜利者通常会变得更支持，而失败者至少会保持选举前的支持水平。它的结论是，当选举进行得相当好时，就像在老牌民主国家中最常见的那样，它会建立系统支持，而不是破坏系统支持。(C)2010爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
The paper seeks to reconcile insights from winner-loser gap research with mainstream understanding of election legitimacy. The paper acknowledges that winning and losing elections creates differential incentives for citizens to remain supportive of their political system, but it argues that losers nevertheless have enough reasons to remain supportive in absolute terms. Drawing on democratic theory, the paper develops a rationale for why citizens are willing to accept electoral defeat voluntarily, and suggest a new way to conceptualize citizen reactions to election outcomes. It presents findings from a sample of election studies in established democracies to show that winners typically become more supportive whereas losers at minimum retain their level of support from before the election. It concludes that elections, when reasonably well executed, as they most often are in established democracies, build system support rather than undermine it. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.