Do Emotions Drive the Link Between Winning and Satisfaction with Democracy? A Test Leveraging the Super Bowl

• In Event: Support for Democracy

Brief Overview

We employ a panel-based, pre-registered natural experiment leveraging the outcome of the Super Bowl to test whether the emotions associated with victory and loss increase/decrease satisfaction with democracy.

Authors

• Shane Singh, University of Georgia

• Patrick Fournier, Université de Montréal

• Jason Roy, Wilfrid Laurier University