Reassessing the winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy

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• What: The authors provide a causal estimate of the effects of voting for a winning or losing party by leveraging data from surveys fielded before and after new government formations in three well established democracies (Netherlands Norway and Iceland) were announced in contexts of very high uncertainty. To better isolate the impact of winner and losing on citizens` satisfaction with democracy, the authors implement an innovative strategy leveraging post-electoral contexts for which the incoming government was announced after a period of high uncertainty regarding the parties forming the next government. The authors focus on three cases . . .
  

   

  

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