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Electoral Resolution: Closing the Cycle Electoral Resolution: Closing the Cycle
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An Unprecedented Period? An Unprecedented Period?
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Elections without Government? Elections without Government?
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Deciphering the Atmosphere of Elections: Two British Case Studies Deciphering the Atmosphere of Elections: Two British Case Studies
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On the Nature of Election Cycles On the Nature of Election Cycles
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Glimmers of Hope and the Concept of the Electoral Honeymoon Glimmers of Hope and the Concept of the Electoral Honeymoon
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‘It Can’t Possibly Get Worse, Anyway’ ‘It Can’t Possibly Get Worse, Anyway’
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Generational Projection as an Antidote to Hopelessness Generational Projection as an Antidote to Hopelessness
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Expressions of Hostility Expressions of Hostility
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‘Hatred 2.0’? Irreconcilability, Silos, and the Populist Fracture ‘Hatred 2.0’? Irreconcilability, Silos, and the Populist Fracture
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Electoral Resolution Revisited Electoral Resolution Revisited
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9 Electoral Resolution and Atmosphere: From Hope to Hostility
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Published:May 2020
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Abstract
This chapter explains that the psychological purpose of elections is to give citizens a sense of democratic control, and, through their cyclical nature, a sense of resolution of emerging or persistent political and ideological conflicts. This concept of electoral resolution is central in citizens' logic of elections. It is also a concept which, by its nature, generates others—such as electoral hostility, democratic frustration, or even the centrality of hope and hopelessness in electoral behaviour. Electoral resolution additionally forces one to redefine yet other notions, such as election cycles and electoral honeymoons, which take on a whole new meaning once one considers them through the prism of elections as resolution mechanisms. After empirically revisiting the notion of electoral atmosphere using two UK case studies (the 2016 referendum on EU membership, and 2017 general election), the chapter examines those concepts one by one.
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