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The article compares the effect of political majority and minority status on attitudes toward government in mature and newly established democracies. Specifically, it examines whether being in the majority translates into more positive attitudes toward government than being in the minority. Using surveys conducted by the International Social Survey Project (ISSP) in 12 democracies in 1996, it finds that being in the majority generally translates into more positive attitudes toward government. However, this effect is not of uniform magnitude across countries, nor does it affect all attitudes toward government equally. Specifically, the data show that being in the political majority or minority strongly affects attitudes toward the performance of the political system and the power of government, but does not affect people's levels of political efficacy in systematic ways. /// Les auteurs comparent l'effet du statut soit majoritaire soit minoritaire sur l'attitude envers le gouvernement dans les nouvelles démocraties et dans les démocraties établies. Les sondages d'opinion de l'International Social Survey Project de 1996 portant sur 12 démocraties montrent que le fait d'être politiquement majoritaire se traduit, de façon générale, par des attitudes plus positives. Cependant, cet effet n'est pas partout de la même amplitude et ne se produit pas sur l'ensemble des attitudes concernées. L'effet majoritaire s'observe en ce qui concerne l'action et les pouvoirs du gouvernement mais n'est pas systématique en ce qui concerne le sentiment d'efficacité politique du citoyen.
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The International Political Science Review (IPSR) is the quarterly journal of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). It is committed to publishing material that makes a significant contribution to international political science. It seeks to meet the needs of political scientists throughout the world who are interested in studying political phenomena in the contemporary context of increasing international interdependence and global change. The IPSR reflects the aims and intellectual tradition of its parent body, IPSA: to foster the creation and dissemination of rigorous political inquiry free of subdisciplinary or other orthodoxy.
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