Elections and Democracy is based on data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, spanning 36 countries. It considers the majoritarian and consensus models of democracy and how and their embodiment in institutional structures influence vote choice, political participation and satisfaction within a functioning democracy

• 1: Jacques Thomassen: Representation and Accountability


• 2: Julian Bernauer, Nathalie Giger and Adrian Vatter: New Patterns of Democracy in the Countries of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems II


• 3: Bernhard Wessels and Hermann Schmitt: Meaningful Choices: Does Parties' Supply Matter?


• 4: Diana Burlacu and Gabor Toka: Policy-based Voting and the Type of Democracy


• 5: Pedro Magalhães: 5. Political Institutions and the Social Anchoring of the Vote


• 6: André Blais, Shane Singh and Delia Dumitrescu: Political Institutions, Perceptions of Representation, and the Turnout Decision


• 7: Steven Weldon and Russell Dalton: Democratic Structures and Democratic Participation: The Limits of ConsensualismTheory


• 8: Sören Holmberg: Feeling Policy Represented


• 9: David Sanders, Harold Clarke, Marianne Stewart and Paul Whiteley: Output Oriented Legitimacy: Individual and System-level Influences on Democracy Satisfaction


• 10: Mark Peffley and Robert Rohrschneider: The Multiple Bases of Democratic Support: Procedural Representation and Governmental Outputs


• 11: Kees Aarts, Jacques Thomassen and Carolien van Ham: Globalization, Representation, and Attitudes Towards Democracy


• 12: Eric Chang, Yun-han Chu and Wen-chin Wu: Consenting to Lose or Expecting to Win? Inter-temporal Changes in Voters' Winner-loser Status and Satisfaction with Democracy


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Jacques Thomassen is a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research interests are in democratic theory, political representation, electoral behaviour and legitimacy. He is author and editor of numerous publications including The European Voter (Oxford University Press 2005), The Legitimacy of the European Union after Enlargement (Oxford University Press 2009), and (with Peter Mair) Political Representation and European Union Governance. He was a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Michigan, Harvard, Mannheim, the Australian National University and the European University Institute in Florence. He is a co-founder of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente