Of Sore Losers and Bad Winners: Explaining Public Support for Contesting Election Results across Multiple Election Cycles

• In Event: Challenging Election Outcomes and Processes

Brief Overview

Previous scholarship finds that electoral winners and losers express differential affect, trust and efficacy. We build on this literature and examine a novel concept we label the “contestation of election results.”

Authors

• Juliet Carlisle, University of Utah

• Christopher Karpowitz, Brigham Young University-Provo

• Fabian Guy Neuner, Arizona State University

• Mark D. Ramirez, Arizona State University-Tempe

• Christopher Weber, University of Arizona