What's in a Cue? How Citizens Infer Policy Information from Party Cues

• In Event: Source Cues and Voter Perceptions in Campaign Communication

Brief Overview

In this paper, we show that a party cue can--in and of itself--lead citizens to draw relevant inferences about the content and immediate consequences of policy. We show this across six experiments conducted in both the United States and Denmark.

Authors

• Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University

• Rasmus Skytte, Aarhus University

• Martin Bisgaard, Aarhus University