id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt xd07gq70543 Victor A. Hernandez-Huerta Post-Election Disputes in Democracies: Challenging the Outcome of the Election as a Negotiation Strategy 1904 .txt text/plain 291 12 43 Using an original dataset that codes the behavior of runner-up candidates in 180 presidential elections (1974-2012) and 966 years of electoral legislation, I find evidence that, in democracies, losing parties with an unfavorable negotiating position in Congress are more prone to dispute presidential election outcomes, even after controlling for the quality of the election and the margin of victory. However, post-election disputes have also occurred in 21% of the democratic presidential elections worldwide since the beginning of the third wave of democracy. cache/xd07gq70543.txt txt/xd07gq70543.txt