Does Political Polarization Impede the Development of Democratic Support? Evidence from a Multi-Country Online Civic Education Experiment

• In Event: Sources of Democratic Resilience

Brief Overview

We investigate via a 34 country online experiment how micro and macro-level political and affective partisan polarization impacts the effectiveness of civic education treatments designed to bolster democratic support.

Authors

• Melek Hilal Eroglu, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

• Steven E. Finkel, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

• Anja Neundorf, University of Glasgow

• Aykut Ozturk, University of Glasgow

• Ericka Rascon