Election Fraud Attitudes: Fans Make Poor Referees?

• In Event: Corruption, Ethics, Voter Attitudes and Behavior

Brief Overview

In a series of surveys and survey experiments our work demonstrates that voters are willing to overlook fraudulent or unfair election practices that benefit their party and overreact when the other side benefits. Fans make poor referees.

Authors

• Ryan L. Claassen, Kent State University at Kent

• John Barry Barry Ryan, University of Michigan

• Michael Ensley, Kent State University at Kent