Taking on the Executive: Presidential Attacks, Counter-frames, and Public Confidence in Electoral Institutions

• In Event: Political Attitudes and Electoral Choices

Brief Overview

We examine how presidents' discoursive attacks impact confidence in electoral institutions using an experiment centered on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO’s) attacks on the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE).

Authors

• Brett Bessen, Tecnologico de Monterrey

• Susan Stokes, The University of Chicago

• Andres Uribe, Stanford University