Understanding public support for compromise and privacy in negotiations

• In Event: Agenda Setting and Unorthodox Legislating

Brief Overview

The public supports compromise; legislators believe they will be more likely to achieve it in private negotiations than public. Yet partisan voters punish their legislators for private negotiations unless they are proposed by a bipartisan coalition.

Authors

• Sarah Anderson, University of California-Santa Barbara

• Dan Butler, UCSD

• Laurel Harbridge Yong, Northwestern University