Experiments on Political Behavior in Advanced Democracies

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

These papers all use experimental methods to tell us something about partisanship and/or political behaviors in advanced democracies. Bonal uses a conjoint experiment among respondents in the UK to understand how affective polarization affects bias in the workplace. Gordon and Fabrizio examine the effects of a depolarization intervention among US respondents. Vanderhoeven uses a survey experiment designed to study the potential impact of sports teams holding LGBTQ+ Pride initiatives on relevant community groups in the UK and North America. Arreguin-Abarca uses a lab experiment to examine how US voters evaluate politician competence. Albertson et al. conduct an audit experiment to understand how responsive local elites are to citizen service requests.

Sub Unit

• Division 51: Experimental Research

Individual Presentations

• Ingroup Validators Amplify Polarization Interventions: A Large-Scale Experiment - Natasha Gordon, Columbia University; Calista Small, More in Common; Ashley Fabrizio, Stanford University; Coco Xu

• Professional Sport as a Form of Political Representation for Marginalized Groups - Noah Eliot Vanderhoeven, University of Western Ontario

• Unifying Instrumental and Expressive Motivations for Political Support - Chano Arreguin-Abarca, Rice University

• Local Government Responsiveness and Discrimination Regarding Citizen Diversity - Jiseon Chang, Princeton University; Batul Mabruk; Daniel L. Nielson, University of Texas at Austin

Chair

• Natasha Gordon Columbia University

Discussants

• James N. Druckman University of Rochester

• Maricruz Ariana Osorio Bentley University