Persistent polarization: The unexpected durability of political animosity around US elections

N Fasching, S Iyengar, Y Lelkes, SJ Westwood - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
The scholarly literature suggests that, as elections approach, political tensions intensify, and,
as they pass, tensions return to pre-election levels. Using a massive new dataset of 66,000 …

The 2020 presidential election and beliefs about fraud: Continuity or change?

AM Enders, JE Uscinski, CA Klofstad, K Premaratne… - Electoral studies, 2021 - Elsevier
The 2020 presidential campaign was plagued by charges of voter fraud both before and
after the election took place. While past literature finds that electoral losers are most likely to …

Donald Trump and the lie

K Arceneaux, R Truex - Perspectives on Politics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The legitimacy of democratically elected governments rests in part on widespread
acceptance of the outcome of elections, especially among those who lost. This “losers' …

How politics affects religion: Partisanship, socialization, and religiosity in America

MF Margolis - The Journal of Politics, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Scholars have consistently shown that social identities can shape political attitudes and
behaviors; this article explores the reverse relationship. Are partisan identities ever strong …

Online Disinformation Predicts Inaccurate Beliefs About Election Fairness Among Both Winners and Losers

M Mauk, M Grömping - Comparative Political Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Electoral disinformation is feared to variously undermine democratic trust by inflaming
incorrect negative beliefs about the fairness of elections, or to shore up dictators by creating …

The miracle and tragedy of the 2020 US election

N Persily, C Stewart III - Journal of Democracy, 2021 - muse.jhu.edu
The 2020 election was both a miracle and a tragedy. In the midst of a pandemic posing
unprecedented challenges, local and state administrators pulled off a safe, secure, and …

Trust in elections

C Stewart III - Daedalus, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
The sometimes violent movement to reject the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election
draws our attention to the topic of trust in the institution of American election administration …

“It's largely a rigged system”: voter confidence and the winner effect in 2016

B Sinclair, SS Smith, PD Tucker - Political Research …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The 2016 presidential election provided a unique opportunity to revisit two competing
hypotheses for how voters establish their perceptions of electoral integrity. First, mass public …

Winning cures everything? Beliefs about voter fraud, voter confidence, and the 2016 election

M Levy - Electoral Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
Rhetoric about “rigged” elections has raised concerns about the solidity of public trust in the
integrity of the voting system. Mitigating these concerns, research by Sinclair et al.(2019) on …

Trusting e-voting amid experiences of electoral malpractice: The case of Indian elections

C Avgerou, S Masiero… - Journal of Information …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article constructs explanatory theory on trust in e-voting, a term that refers to the use of
stand-alone IT artefacts in voting stations. We study e-voting as a techno-organisational …