Articles by Lisa Janssen

November 1, 2023

Losing the vote, losing the faith: electoral defeat in polarised times

Lisa Janssen

Accepting electoral defeat is essential for democratic stability. Yet, amid the political polarisation that followed the storming of the US Capitol and similar events in Brazil, losers’ consent became harder to obtain. Using case studies from UK elections, Lisa Janssen explains how polarisation influences citizens’ responses to election results

Lisa Janssen

PhD Candidate, Ghent University

Lisa's research focuses on polarisation, democratic attitudes, and political psychology.

She has published in the European Journal of Political Research, Acta Politica, and Acta Sociologica.

Sweet victory, bitter defeat: The amplifying effects of affective and perceived ideological polarization on the winner-loser gap in political support

The predictive value of polls in a fragmented multi-party system: The Netherlands 1998–2021

Privatization of preschool education: The implications for educational inequalities in cross-national perspective

She tweets @lisajnssn

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