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Field Experiment Evidence of Substantive, Attributional, and Behavioral Persuasion by Members of Congress in Online Town Halls
A study providing rare field-experimental evidence that citizens can be persuaded by substantive arguments rather than just partisan cues. The findings suggest that well-designed online forums can…
Thrasymachus’s Blush: Between the Science of Reason & the Politics of Emotion
This paper pushes back against "democratic realists" who argue that citizens are too irrational for democracy. By revisiting the dialogue of Thrasymachus, it argues that recent findings in…