Does Democracy Matter at the Ballot Box? Cognitive Dissonance in Party Versus Democracy Choices

• In Event: Shaping Attitudes about Democracy

Brief Overview

This study develops a theory to examine whether the party–democracy tradeoff is real in partisan voters’ minds when their copartisan candidate behaves undemocratically. It tests the framework’s implications through an online survey experiment.

Author

• Murat Akdogan, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus