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Losers' consent : elections and democratic legitimacy
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- Summary
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"Based on data from democracies across the globe, this book examines how election losers and their supporters respond to their loss and how institutions shape losing"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Christopher J. Anderson ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
- Physical Details
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- xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199276387, 0199276382
- OCLC
- ocm56755651
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-212) and index.
- Winning isn't everything : losers' consent and democratic legitimacy -- Political legitimacy and the winner-loser gap -- The winner-loser gap : contours and boundaries -- The dynamics of losers' consent : persistence and change in the winner-loser gap -- Individual differences in losers' consent -- Winning and losing in old and new democracies -- How political institutions shape losers' consent -- Comparing losers' assessments of electoral democracy -- Losing and support for institutional change -- Conclusion: graceful losers and the democratic bargain