Take Your European Rules and Shove ‘Em: The Effect of American Exceptionalism on Americans’ Support for Electoral Reform

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Nationalism and Foreign Policy

Brief Overview

I create a battery that measures the belief in American exceptionalism. To assess how exceptionalist attitudes affect issue positions, I run a framing experiment that manipulates the identity of electoral rules as either American or foreign.

Author

• Sheahan Virgin, Vanderbilt University