Political Gains or Democratic Principles? Issue-Based Polarization and Democratic Backsliding

• In Event: Parties and Polarization Across Different Types of Regimes

Brief Overview

This paper examines the ‘trade-off’ effects between issue-based polarization and democratic backsliding with evidence from a pre-registered conjoint experiment conducted in Finland.

Authors

• Inga A-L. Saikkonen, Åbo Akademi University

• Henrik Serup Christensen, Åbo Akademi University