ERC Consolidator Grant · 2019
The Informational Role of Political Parties in Citizens’ Opinion Formation
Citizens’ opinions about public policy lies at the heart of democracy. A long-standing, but little researched, claim in political science is that political parties provide a vital informational basis that citizens can use to inform their policy opinions. However, current literature shows the opposite: Parties distort citizens’ decision-making and make them dogmatic defenders of their party without caring about policy substance. Therefore, we lack a theory of how – or even if – parties can provide policy information citizens use to inform their opinions. This project advances a new research agenda to examine the informational role of political parties in citizens’ opinion formation. The…
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