Performing Representation: How Legislative Questioning Shapes Partisan Perceptions and Affective Polarization

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Brief Overview

Legislative questioning not only holds governments accountable but signals partisanship and emotion. Using a Taiwanese survey experiment, we test how confrontational vs. conciliatory behavior affects emotions, trust, and polarization.

Authors

• I Chu Wang, National Taiwan University

• Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica