Who do Public Officials Learn From? A Field Experiment on Policy Diffusion

• In Event: CwC Experiments and Political Elites: Experiments on Representation and Partisanship

Brief Overview

This project uses a collaborative field experiment to explore how partisan and bipartisan signals drive elected officials to learn from each other. The results show how affective polarization creates an obstacle for policy diffusion.

Author

• Miguel Maria Pereira, Washington University in St Louis