Rewarded for Principle, Punished for Ambition? Voter Reactions to No-Confidence Motions in Parliamentary Democracies

• In Event: Parliamentary Politics and Electoral Systems

Brief Overview

No-confidence motions can help or hurt opposition parties. Using cross-national data and a survey experiment, we examine whether voters reward motions that expose government failure but punish those perceived as opportunistic power grabs.

Authors

• Betul Demirkaya, University of Kentucky

• Kendall Lynn Curtis, University of Mississippi

• Grace Christine Hartzell, University of Texas at Austin

• Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas at Austin