Voting Against Democracy? Electoral Behavior and Democratic Legitimacy when Authoritarianism is on the Ballot

• In Event: Political Campaigns on Latin America

Brief Overview

How do campaigns in which authoritarianism is on the ballot affect democratic legitimacy? We seek to answer this question through an original four-wave election panel survey conducted around the October 2018 presidential election in Brazil.

Authors

• Mason Wallace Moseley, West Virginia University

• Amy Erica Smith, Iowa State University

• Matthew L. Layton, Ohio University-Main Campus

• Mollie Jane Cohen, University of Georgia