Snap Elections and Public Opinion of Governing Parties

• In Event: Elections Around the World

Brief Overview

We argue that voters find early elections procedurally unfair and punish the party responsible for the early election call. We test our expectation for the opportunistic, failure, and coalition partner defection early elections separately.

Authors

• Kendall Lynn Curtis, The University of Texas at Austin

• Zeynep Somer-Topcu, The University of Texas at Austin