Deep partisan conflict in the mass public threatens the stability of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy on a national sample of American partisans (n = 32,059) testing 25 interventions designed to reduce anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity. These interventions were selected from a pool of 252 interventions submitted by social scientists, practitioners, and activists as part of the Strengthening Democracy Challenge. Contrary to the expectations of expert forecasters, we find that nearly every selected intervention (23 out of 25) significantly reduced partisan animosity. CONTINUED
Jan G. Voelkel (Stanford), Michael N. Stagnaro (MIT), James Chu (Columbia), Robb Willer (Stanford), et al
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