Political legitimacy and satisfaction with democracy in Europe

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Kotnarowski, Michał
Markowski, Radosław
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How Europeans view and evaluate democracy revisited: Ten years later
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Ferrin, Monica
Hanspeter, Kriesi
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2025-02
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Oxford University Press
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How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited
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279-294
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9780198883319
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This chapter focuses on the relationship between satisfaction with democracy and the general political legitimacy. Political legitimacy manifests itself in three ontologically different types, distinguished by cognitive, evaluative, and behavioral aspects. The chapter clarifies how these manifestations contribute to the general concept of political legitimacy. Subsequently, it moves on to investigate whether context matters. The context is operationalized as a variation in the quality of democracy assessed by expert judgments of the V-Dem project. The empirical results show that political legitimacy is positively associated with satisfaction with democracy, but to a different extent depending on the type of legitimacy. The clearest relationship is unveiled between trust in institutions as an indication of legitimacy and satisfaction with democracy. Numerous detailed analyses indicate that context matters; in particular, certain relationships between the two main concepts depend very much on whether they pertain to embedded or malfunctioning democracies.
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satisfaction with democracy
political legitimacy
embedded and defective democracies
political context
types of democrats
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Instytut Nauk Społecznych
Wydział Nauk Społecznych w Warszawie
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https://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1554
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