🚨 Working paper alert! 🚨 Why does radical party entry reduce its voters' satisfaction with democracy (SWD)? In a new preprint with @morganlcj.bsky.social, we argue this is because of the downstream effect of a disliked party win, and provide evidence consistent with our argument. polsky

The paper departs from the puzzle that, despite the increasing institutionalization of new radical parties across Western democracies, their already discontent voters express even more dissatisfaction after entering the system. Why? 🤔