It’s All About the Audience (and a Bit About the Framing): Citizens’ Impeachment Calculus in Brazil and Colombia

• In Event: Public Opinion and Political Behavior in Latin America

Brief Overview

This paper examines how citizens form attitudes toward impeachment. Using a survey experiment in Brazil and Colombia, it finds that partisanship outweighs exposure effects, with non-aligned voters most responsive and crime frames boosting support.

Author

• Flavia Batista Batista da Silva, University of Maryland, College Park