TY - JOUR
T1 - The conditional impact of winner/loser status and ideological proximity on citizen participation
AU - Curini, Luigi
AU - Jou, Willy
N1 - Funding Information:
Curini's work was supported by the Centre for Political Economy as a Top Global University project, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Jou's research was supported by Social Science Korea programme through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (grant number NRF-2013S1A3A2055205).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 European Consortium for Political Research
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - Many scholars have investigated the relationship between ideological orientations and mass participation, and there is also a growing number of studies comparing political attitudes and behaviour between electoral winners and losers. This article seeks to bring together these two strands of literature with respect to political participation, focusing on the interaction between citizens’ winner/loser status and ideological distance from their government. Analysis of data from 34 countries highlights the importance of this interactive effect: while previous works suggest that losers have a greater propensity to take part in political activities, it is shown here that this relationship holds true only when losers occupy a position along the left-right spectrum distant from the government. Furthermore, while the hypothesised interactive effect is empirically confirmed for turnout, the magnitude of its impact is much greater for more costly modes of participation such as contacting, campaigning and protesting.
AB - Many scholars have investigated the relationship between ideological orientations and mass participation, and there is also a growing number of studies comparing political attitudes and behaviour between electoral winners and losers. This article seeks to bring together these two strands of literature with respect to political participation, focusing on the interaction between citizens’ winner/loser status and ideological distance from their government. Analysis of data from 34 countries highlights the importance of this interactive effect: while previous works suggest that losers have a greater propensity to take part in political activities, it is shown here that this relationship holds true only when losers occupy a position along the left-right spectrum distant from the government. Furthermore, while the hypothesised interactive effect is empirically confirmed for turnout, the magnitude of its impact is much greater for more costly modes of participation such as contacting, campaigning and protesting.
KW - cabinet position
KW - electoral losers
KW - ideological proximity
KW - political participation
KW - turnout
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U2 - 10.1111/1475-6765.12161
DO - 10.1111/1475-6765.12161
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84980011783
SN - 0304-4130
VL - 55
SP - 767
EP - 788
JO - European Journal of Political Research
JF - European Journal of Political Research
IS - 4
ER -