What kind of electoral outcome do people think is good for democracy?
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- dc.contributor.author Blais, André
- dc.contributor.author Bol, Damien
- dc.contributor.author Bowler, Shaun
- dc.contributor.author Farrell, David M.
- dc.contributor.author Fredén, Annika
- dc.contributor.author Foucault, Martial
- dc.contributor.author Heisbourg, Emmanuel
- dc.contributor.author Lachat, Romain
- dc.contributor.author Lago Peñas, Ignacio
- dc.contributor.author Loewen, Peter John
- dc.contributor.author Nemčok, Miroslav
- dc.contributor.author Pilet, Jean-Benoit
- dc.contributor.author Plescia, Carolina
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-27T12:54:50Z
- dc.date.available 2024-03-27T12:54:50Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract There is perennial debate in comparative politics about electoral institutions, but what characterizes this debate is the lack of consideration for citizens’ perspective. In this paper, we report the results of an original survey conducted on representative samples in 15 West European countries (N = 15,414). We implemented an original instrument to elicit respondents’ views by asking them to rate “real but blind” electoral outcomes. With this survey instrument, we aimed to elicit principled rather than partisan preferences regarding the kind of electoral outcomes that citizens think is good for democracy. We find that West Europeans do not clearly endorse a majoritarian or proportional vision of democracy. They tend to focus on aspects of the government rather than parliament when they pass a judgment. They want a majority government that has few parties and enjoys wide popular support. Finally, we find only small differences between citizens of different countries.
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- dc.identifier.citation Blais A, Bol D, Bowler S, Farrell DM, Fredén A, Foucault M, et al. What kind of electoral outcome do people think is good for democracy? Polit Stud. 2023 Nov;71(4):1068-89. DOI: 10.1177/00323217211055560
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00323217211055560
- dc.identifier.issn 0032-3217
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59597
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher SAGE Publications
- dc.relation.ispartof Political Studies. 2023 Nov;71(4):1068-89
- dc.rights © The Author(s) 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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- dc.subject.keyword Electoral systems
- dc.subject.keyword Proportional representation
- dc.subject.keyword Western Europe
- dc.subject.keyword Democracy
- dc.subject.keyword Elections
- dc.title What kind of electoral outcome do people think is good for democracy?
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