Losers' Consent
Elections and Democratic Legitimacy
ISBN13: 9780199276387ISBN10: 0199276382
Hardback,
234 pages
Apr 2005,
In Stock
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Description
Based on data from new and established contemporary democracies across the globe, this leading team of experts examines how election losers and their supporters respond to their loss and how institutions shape losing. Losers' Consent shows how being able to accept losing is one of the central requirements of democracy, and provides a major new contribution to our understanding of political legitimacy, comparative political behaviour, and democratic stability.Features
- 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
About the Author(s)
Christopher J. Anderson is Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University.
André Blais is Professor of Political Science at the University of Montreal.
Shaun Bowler is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.
Todd Donovan is Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University.
Ola Listhaug is Professor of Political Science and Chairman in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
