Defusing Democratic Hypocrisy: The Effects of Perspective-Taking on the Support for Democratic Norms Erosion

• In Event: Legitimacy, Radicalization, and Support for Democracy

Brief Overview

Democratic hypocrisy is when people support the erosion of democratic norms more when their prefered party is in power. Based on findings of a Hungarian survey experiment, perspective-taking of out-party members’ can mitigate this.

Authors

• Bence Hamrak, Central European University

• Levente Littvay, Central European University

• Jennifer McCoy, Georgia State University