Strange bedfellows: Coalition makeup and perceptions of democratic performance among electoral winners |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Georgia, USA;2. Georgia State University, USA;1. Department of Political Science, Richard Stockton College, 101 Vera King Farris Dr., Galloway, NJ 08205, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Richard Stockton College, 101 Vera King Farris Dr., Galloway, NJ 08205, USA;3. Department of Economics, Drexel University, LeBow College of Business, 3141 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;1. University of Houston, 429 Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall, Houston, TX 77204-3011, USA;2. New York University, 19 W 4th St., 2nd FL, New York, NY 10012, USA;1. The Ohio State University, USA;2. World Bank, USA |
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| Abstract: | We argue that the partisan makeup of governing coalitions affects perceptions of democratic performance among those who voted for a government party. We introduce ambivalence toward the governing parties as the mechanism that drives this relationship, and we argue that such ambivalence, which occurs when favorability ratings of the parties vary, will be more common where the parties are more ideologically diverse. After advancing our theory, we test our expectations with post-election survey data from several countries. Evidence demonstrates that coalition ambivalence is greater where governing parties are ideologically divergent, and, even when controlling for this ideological divergence, ambivalence leads to more negative perceptions of democratic performance, bringing the attitudes of electoral winners closer to those of individuals who did not vote for a party in government. |
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| Keywords: | Ambivalence Coalition government Ideological dispersion |
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