This chapter summarizes the lessons learned about Homo Suffragator and the psychology of voters. Do personality, memory, and identity shape citizens' electoral experience and behaviour, and elections' capacity to bring democratic resolution; and what are the main determinants of each model? Has the book's attempt to turn electoral science upside-down by switching the dependent variable been successful? It may be of greater consequence to know whether elections make people happy, and whether they offer a continuous peaceful resolution to divergent preferences and beliefs, than to know whom people and nations vote for. Beyond summarizing the results of the static models explored so far, the chapter also reintegrates the original dynamic expectations into the model, and assesses the reciprocal causality between the three interrelated dependent variable sets—behaviour, experience, and resolution—using the panel study design in the US case.
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