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Democracy and Bureaucracy: How their Quality Matters for Popular Satisfaction
Abstract
This study focuses on how citizens’ satisfaction with democracy is affected by system factors related to the input side of the democratic system, i.e. the electoral dimension, as well as to factors related to the output side, i.e. the quality of government. The study investigates the extent to which different election system characteristics and degrees of policy representation (in terms of ideological congruence between voters and representatives) and the presence of effective, professional and impartial governmental institutions are related to citizens’ satisfaction with the way democracy works. The study uses data from CSES on individual voters and party system characteristics together with data on governmental institutions from the QoG Institute. Overall, the results indicate that factors such as government effectiveness are of greater importance for citizens’ satisfaction with the way democracy functions, compared to factors like ideological congruence on the input side. Impartial and effective bureaucracies matter more than representational devices.
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- Authors
- Dahlberg, S., & Holmberg, S.
- Venue
- West European Politics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-10-16
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 515-537
- ISSN
- 0140-2382 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-9655
- OpenAlex
- W2069012951
- Cited by
- 408
- References
- 53
- FWCI
- 65.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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