Comparing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Sources of Demand for Democratic Backsliding

• In Event: Support for Democratic Norms

Brief Overview

This paper analyzes the results from two survey experiments (N = 1,625; N = 1,601). It contrasts parties’ ability to influence democratic attitudes with the "bottom-up" psychology of partisanship and partisan competition.

Author

• Romeo Alejandro Gray, Stony Brook University