Experimental Manipulations of Affective Polarization: A Design-Based Evaluation of Key Assumptions

• In Event: Experimental Methods

Brief Overview

We show the effects of affective polarization on democratic norms support vary sharply depending on the method used to identify the causal effects. We implement an implicit-mediation approach to evaluate the assumptions underlying these approaches.

Authors

• Libby Jenke, University of Houston

• Donald P Green, Columbia University