Confidence in elections among U.S. local officials: Effects of social trust, partisanship and political ambition

• Eric Plutzer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Plutzer, Gary Adler, Rebecca Sager, Jonathan S. Coley, Damon Mayrl

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: plutzer@psu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Political Science, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Gary Adler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Plutzer, Gary Adler, Rebecca Sager, Jonathan S. Coley, Damon Mayrl

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Rebecca Sager ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Plutzer, Gary Adler, Rebecca Sager, Jonathan S. Coley, Damon Mayrl

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Jonathan S. Coley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Plutzer, Gary Adler, Rebecca Sager, Jonathan S. Coley, Damon Mayrl

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0829-6171

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• Damon Mayrl

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Plutzer, Gary Adler, Rebecca Sager, Jonathan S. Coley, Damon Mayrl

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, United States of America

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