Winners, Losers, and Attitudes about Government in Contemporary Democracies
Winners, Losers, and Attitudes about Government in Contemporary Democracies
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当代民主国家的赢家、输家以及对政府的态度
DOI：
10.1177/0192512101022004003
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Yuliya V. Tverdova
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作者：
C. Anderson;Yuliya V. Tverdova
本文比较了成熟民主国家和新兴民主国家中政治多数和政治少数地位对政府态度的影响。具体来说，它考察了作为多数人是否会比作为少数人对政府持更积极的态度。国际社会调查项目（ISSP）在1996年对12个民主国家进行的调查发现，占多数的人通常会对政府持更积极的态度。然而，这种影响在不同国家的程度并不相同，也不是所有国家对政府的态度都受到同样的影响。具体而言，数据表明，在政治上占多数或占少数会强烈影响人们对政治制度绩效和政府权力的态度，但不会系统性地影响人们的政治效能水平。
The article compares the effect of political majority and minority status on attitudes toward government in mature and newly established democracies. Specifically, it examines whether being in the majority translates into more positive attitudes toward government than being in the minority. Using surveys conducted by the International Social Survey Project (ISSP) in 12 democracies in 1996, it finds that being in the majority generally translates into more positive attitudes toward government. However, this effect is not of uniform magnitude across countries, nor does it affect all attitudes toward government equally. Specifically, the data show that being in the political majority or minority strongly affects attitudes toward the performance of the political system and the power of government, but does not affect people's levels of political efficacy in systematic ways.