A study on the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election revealed a significant partisan gap in satisfaction with democracy, with decreases observed among Republicans and increases observed among Democrats. Importantly, the new findings, published in PS: Political Science & Politics, provide evidence that perceptions of electoral legitimacy and media fairness fully accounted for this partisan gap. “This research project was the result of a collaboration among all faculty in High Point University’s Department of Political Science,” said corresponding author Samuel Whitt, an associate professor at the…