Menschen, die die korrekte und faire Durchführung von Wahlen bezweifeln, haben zudem eine höhere Akzeptanz für das Nichtbefolgen von Gesetzen und geben an, sich öfters nicht an Vorschriften zu halten.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Menschen, die an der Integrität von Wahlen zweifeln, nehmen grundsätzlich weniger oft an Wahlen teil. Wenn sie allerdings wählen gehen, so stimmen sie eher für Parteien, die vorher nicht Teil der Regierung waren, insbesondere populistische Parteien.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Could you please add me to that, too? Thanks a lot!

Could you please add me? Thanks a lot!

In times of ill-founded assertions about “stolen elections,” these findings entail important implications for the ability of democratic systems to govern effectively and questions of electoral backsliding and democratic erosion more generally.

3️⃣ These views also matter for law-abiding behavior in other domains: Those who consider the electoral process fraudulent and election-related non-compliance justifiable adhere less often to governmental regulations pertaining to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

2️⃣ Those who themselves perceive the integrity of the electoral process and postal voting compromised are more likely to view election-related non-compliance justified.

Main findings:

1️⃣ About 20% of citizens in Germany consider it generally justified to disobey the laws and regulations of a newly elected government if one feels that the integrity of the preceding election has been compromised.

In case this is of interest, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I have a paper with a similar argument but using aggregated immigration salience to capture the contexts in which citizens' immigration attitudes might translate more often into far-right support: academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...