Defending Democracy Through Abstention? Understanding Voter Reactions to Endorsements of Democratic Norm Violations

• In Event: Democracy and Voting Behavior

Brief Overview

This paper uses two conjoint experiments to show how voting behaviour (defection and abstention) changes in response to candidate endorsement of norm violations; and how this behaviour is correlated with affective polarization.

Authors

• Eric Merkley, University of Toronto

• Thomas Galipeau, University of Toronto