Partisan Signaling and Asymmetric Support for Democratic Institutions

• In Event: Trust in Institutions and Government

Brief Overview

This project explores cuetaking based on partisanship and the Presidency. More than other available heuristics, our experiments show presidential partisan cues sharply influence attitudes towards a host of both elected and non-elected institutions.

Authors

• Ali Shiraz Masood, Rhodes College

• Ryan Strickler, Colorado State University at Pueblo

• Michael Zilis, University of Kentucky