Favourable outcomes, procedural fairness, and political support: results from a survey experiment

In this research note we address this issue and attempt to add to the literature in three ways. First, we look experimentally at how both procedural fairness and outcome favourability matter for people’s support for political authorities, in terms of both incumbent approval and (intended) voting. Second, we look at different dimensions of procedural fairness — Voice, Neutrality, and Transparency — to determine which of them appears to be most consequential for political support. Finally, we test for the existence of a process-outcome interaction in the explanation of political support using the experimental method.