When Do Elite Messages Move Public Opinion? Party Cues and Issue Complexity in Brexit Negotiations

• In Event: European Union (Dis)Integration

Brief Overview

The results from an original conjoint survey experiment fielded in the UK in August 2017 suggest that while parties strongly influence public opinion, their impact is contingent on issue complexity.

Authors

• Carolina Plescia, University of Vienna

• Magdalena Maria Staniek, University College Dublin