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Replication Data for: The Effects of Government System Fractionalization on Satisfaction with Democracy

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Title Replication Data for: The Effects of Government System Fractionalization on Satisfaction with Democracy
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EU541C
 
Creator Christmann, Pablo
Torcal, Mariano
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Consensual-pluralistic institutional features of representative democracies have traditionally been associated with satisfaction with democracy (SWD). However, more recent studies report contradictory results on the effects of some of these institutional determinants on SWD. This article confirms these puzzling findings by showing that electoral proportionality increases SWD while other pluralistic factors such as government fractionalization produce the opposite effect. We illustrate this duality of counteracting effects by expanding the number of cases under study to different regions of the world in a comprehensive TSCS sample of 58 democracies between 1990 and 2012. In the second part of the paper, we are able to reconfirm these findings at the individual level by employing survey data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.
 
Subject Social Sciences
satisfaction with democracy
electoral system
proportionality
party system
government fractionalization
 
Contributor Christmann, Pablo