The Moral Limits of Democracy and Partisanship: Observational and Experimental Evidence from Political Betting

• In Event: Support for Democratic Norms

Brief Overview

We test whether partisan loyalties and democratic norms are sacred values in political betting. A survey experiment and Polymarket data show when betting choices mark moral boundaries versus biased beliefs, clarifying limits of commodifying politics.

Authors

• Georgy Tarasenko, Cornell University

• Thomas Gareau-Paquette, Cornell University