The gap between ideal and reality
| dc.contributor.advisor | Manevska, Katerina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dekker, J | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-06-24 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Legitimacy is crucial for democracy’s existence. It signifies the extent to which the government is accepted by citizens. This thesis contributes to the area of perceived legitimacy and considers what role citizens’ expectations of an ideal regime play for their satisfaction with democracy (SWD). Two groups were compared: those that are committed to democracy as an ideal, democrats, and those that are not, non-democrats. From literature on legitimacy, three sources of legitimacy can be derived: input, throughput, and output. It is argued that democrats care about democratic processes of participation and representation and the quality of the government process (input and throughput), while non-democrats care more about the outcome of the process (output). By means of multiple linear regression, the importance of input, throughput and output legitimacy is tested, and the relative importance of these sources is compared between groups. Results show that each of these sources have a significant effect on SWD. It is also shown that feeling that voting has a difference (input) is significantly more important for democrats’ SWD than for non-democrats. Furthermore, for the group of non-democrats it is revealed that evaluation of government performance (output) matters most and for democrats it is feeling that one’s views are represented (input) that has the largest impact on SWD. These results suggest that citizens’ expectations of the regime have an impact on SWD, which provides many opportunities for future research. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/12510 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | Comparative Politics | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Master Political Science | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Master | en_US |
| dc.title | The gap between ideal and reality | en_US |
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