Promise keeping: What do Opposition Voters Expect from a Government Party? Findings of a Cross-National Survey Experiment

• In Event: Promises, hard decisions and economic grievances

Brief Overview

When judging the importance of governments’ promise-keeping, only some opposition voters, especially radical right populists, care which party is in government. This has implications for the tensions between democratic ideals and rationality.

Authors

• Annika Werner, Australian National University

• Reinhard C. Heinisch, University of Salzburg, Austria