{"id":4919,"date":"2022-11-30T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:37:31","slug":"whats-the-harm-of-refusing-to-concede-a-qa-with-florian-justwan-and-ryan-d-williamson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/whats-the-harm-of-refusing-to-concede-a-qa-with-florian-justwan-and-ryan-d-williamson\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the harm of refusing to concede? A Q&A with Florian Justwan and Ryan D. Williamson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Readers of these Election Reform Q&As may recall that I\u00a0interviewed<\/a>\u00a0the R Street Institute\u2019s Matt Germer about the importance of loser\u2019s consent for our democratic system. In short, our democratic republic exists by the consent of the governed, and that consent is renewed when we hold elections and accept the results. But the gripe \u201cWe wuz robbed\u201d is a verity in American electoral politics, and since the Founding there inevitably have been losers who blamed their defeat on their opponents\u2019 unscrupulous behavior. So, should we really be concerned when candidates refuse to concede? Is there any real cost… (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers of these Election Reform Q&As may recall that I\u00a0interviewed\u00a0the R Street Institute\u2019s Matt Germer about the importance of loser\u2019s consent for our democratic system. In short, our democratic republic exists by the consent of the governed, and that consent is renewed when we hold elections and accept the results. But the gripe \u201cWe wuz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-reform","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}