Bipartisanship and Elite Rhetoric

• In Event: Bipartisanship, Compromise, and Conflict

Brief Overview

How do partisans react to pro-bipartisanship rhetoric? Using three experiments, we determine whether messages encouraging or discouraging bipartisanship affect candidate evaluations, party loyalty, and affective polarization.

Authors

• Amy Brooke Grauley, University of Notre Dame

• Shay Riley Hafner, University of Notre Dame