Rune Slothuus

TL;DR: This article found that polarization intensifies the impact of party endorsements on opinions, decreases impact of substantive information and stimulates greater confidence in those less substantively grounded opinions, and that polarized environments fundamentally change how citizens make decisions.

TL;DR: This article found that polarization intensifies the impact of party endorsements on opinions, decreases impact of substantive information and stimulates greater confidence in those less substantively grounded opinions, and that polarized environments fundamentally change how citizens make decisions.

TL;DR: This paper found that people are more likely to follow a frame if it is promoted by a political party and that such biases are more pronounced on issues at the center of party conflicts and among the more politically aware.

TL;DR: The work of as mentioned in this paper provides a coherent theoretical framework for understanding partisan influence on citizens' political opinions and argues that the answer to when and how parties influence citizens' reasoning and political opinions depends on an interaction between citizens' motivations, effort, and information generated from the political environment (particularly through competition between parties).

TL;DR: Social science on “deliberative democracy” offers reasons for optimism about citizens' capacity to avoid polarization and manipulation and to make sound decisions and empirical evidence shows that the gap can be closed.