...Suthan Krishnarajan In defining satisfaction with democracy, this study follows the conceptual framework of Norris (2011) and focuses on citizens’ evaluations of democratic performance. Specifically, the purpose is to explain variation in public satisfaction with national democratic processes...

... authoritarian dimension Rokkan S social economic dimension civil society Lipset S M consensus democracy electoral system majoritarian model of democracy majoritarian institutions multiparty system proportional electoral system satisfaction with democracy Comparative Study of Electoral Systems CSES...

... on a survey question about satisfaction with democracy, which is asked widely in the surveys listed in Table 4.1 . In each survey, the question is exactly or near to: “On the whole, are you very satisfied, fairly satisfied, not very satisfied, or not at all satisfied with the way democracy works in [name...

... governance quality (a weak rule of law) is consistently associated with lower levels of democracy satisfaction. Finally, democracy satisfaction is also found to be higher in systems with proportional representation. These findings clearly suppport the idea that people are instrumentally rational...

... trust political trust satisfaction with democracy political system dissatisfaction with democracy political system 1964 general election UK 2010 general election UK British Election Study ies BES Conservative government party UK Tory government party diffuse support election UK general 1964...

... immigration political systems perceptions political trust satisfaction with democracy civic identity ascriptive identity policy Immigration has become one of the most important issues facing modern-day Europe. It has often sparked negative public reactions, and has had a substantial effect on party...

... and performance voting, in four open economies: Germany, Iceland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Using survey data from the elections immediately before and after the start of the GFC, the chapter examines satisfaction with democracy and whether attitudes towards democracy and the determinants of party support...

...This chapter explores the impact of globalization on satisfaction with democracy in a comparative perspective. It explicitly investigates whether globalization fosters or constrains democratic support and if the potential negative effects diminish once countries compensate for them. The analyses...

...Table 11.A1 Variable descriptive information, all range from 0 to 1 Mean SD Satisfaction EU democracy 0.499 0.305 Ratio satisfaction EU vs. national democracy 0.479 0.166 EU support 0.618 0.272 Satisfaction national democracy 0.531 0.321...

... and lower educated. To the extent that there is support for the globalization thesis, the increase in satisfaction with democracy has been less pronounced among the lower educated, generating a widening “satisfaction gap.” Aarts K Thomassen J J A Van Ham C globalization theory modernization theory Bell...

... that the party system facilitates citizens in making meaningful political choices. Andeweg R B Crewe I Farrell D M Schattschneider E E political parties satisfaction with democracy trust political Dalton R J Mair P Poguntke T Van Biezen I Wattenberg M P Political Party Database Blais A Franklin M...

... electoral systems proportional election systems single transferable vote STV trust political Erber R Fitzgerald J Flavin P Lau R R Listhaug O Miller A H Parker G R Parker S L Wolak J legislatures Heijstek Ziemann K satisfaction with democracy Marks G corruption economic outcomes...

... majoritarian democracies proportional election systems rule of law Dekker P Hardin R Kasperson R Oskarsson S Singer M M bureaucratic professionalism and quality of government satisfaction with democracy trust political Evans P B Rauch J E economic outcomes Mishler W Rose R electoral systems...

... inflation quality of governance satisfaction with democracy unemployment Anderson C J Brockner J Curini L Dahlberg S Erlingsson G Ó Haerpfer C Holmberg S Kaufmann D Khramov V Kraay A Lee J R Mastruzzi M Mishler W Norris P Rose R Rothstein B Seligson M A Teorell J Thibaut J W Tverdova...

... controversies Falk A Fischbacher U Fisher R Husser J trust political Baum M Downs W Schade J dissonance reduction and policy controversies Uba K Sweden Todosijevic B Bengtsson Å Christensen H Hibbing J R Jodal O Theiss Morse E satisfaction with democracy Barber B Neblo M Pateman C...

... Figure 13.3 The two clusters and the relationship between importance, evaluation, and SWD Figure 13.1 Levels of satisfaction with democracy in Europe Source: European Social Survey 2002–2012 Figure 13.2 Correlation between SWD and World Bank governance...

... decentralization legitimacy political support political trust satisfaction with democracy politicization As everywhere else in the democratic world, concerns about democratic legitimacy are widespread in the Netherlands. Scientific analyses and policy reports regularly signal that a substantial proportion...

... democratic principles efficacy election outcomes elections fairness losers protest responsiveness satisfaction with democracy system support winners This chapter starts our empirical investigation by mapping the contours of the legitimacy gap between political losers and winners. Following...

... claim. Responding directly to the puzzle of urban incumbent hostility discussed in Chapter 2, this chapter evaluates the expectation that the lower proclivity of urbanites to support incumbents and express satisfaction with democracy should be conditional on levels of urbanization. More specifically...

...Michał Kotnarowski and Radosław Markowski, Political legitimacy and satisfaction with democracy in Europe. In: How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited. Edited by: Mónica Ferrín and Hanspeter Kriesi, Oxford University Press. © Michał Kotnarowski...