Replication Data for: Intra-Party Politics and Public Opinion: How Candidate Selection Processes affect Citizens' Satisfaction with Democracy

[Abstract]: Scholars often mention the centrality of parties for the democratic political system. Indeed political parties are indispensable institutions for the linkage between state and society, and should not remain absent in any comparative analysis of citizens' political attitudes. Yet, only rarely do scholars study how parties shape people's opinion about democracy. This article seeks to amend this lacuna and examine empirically how party level characteristics, specifically the nature of a party's candidate selection procedure, relate to the level of satisfaction with democracy among citizens. The authors constructed a cross-national dataset with data on the selection procedures of 130 political parties in 28 country-sessions to examine whether citizens that vote for democratically organized parties are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country. Additionally, this relationship is examined more closely in Israel and Belgium, two countries where candidate selection procedures show substantial variation and where politicians have made a strong claim for intraparty democratization. Both the cross-national as well as the country-specific analyses indicate that democratic candidate selection are indeed associated with greater satisfaction with democracy.[摘要]: 学界时常论及政党之于民主政治体系的核心地位。诚然，政党乃是联结国家与社会的不可或缺的制度性纽带，在任何针对公民政治态度的比较分析中均不应缺位。然而，鲜有学者探究政党如何形塑民众对民主的认知与评价。本文旨在弥补这一研究空白，实证考察政党层面特征——具体为政党候选人遴选程序的性质——与公民民主满意度水平之间的关联。作者构建了一项跨国数据集，收录28个国家选举时段内130个政党的遴选程序相关数据，用以检验投票支持采用民主遴选机制政党的公民，是否对本国民主运作状况拥有更高满意度。此外，本文还针对以色列与比利时两国展开更细致的国别分析：这两个国家的候选人遴选程序存在显著差异，且政界人士曾就党内民主化提出强烈诉求。无论是跨国整体分析还是国别特异性分析均显示，采用民主式候选人遴选机制的政党，确实与更高水平的民主满意度存在显著关联。