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The study of how elections function as social rituals—how they mobilize populations, create collective experiences, and produce [legitimate] outcomes (or fail to). Elections are not just technical processes; they're social events that bring societies together, create temporary communities of interest, and generate enormous [emotional energy]. The sociology of elections examines who votes and why (class, race, age, religion), how campaigns mobilize supporters (through organizations, networks, messages), and how outcomes are interpreted (as mandates, as repudiations, as fraud). It also examines what happens when elections fail to produce [legitimacy]—when losers don't accept results, when institutions are distrusted, when the social agreement that makes democracy possible breaks down. Elections work when society works; when society fractures, elections can break it further.
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