Trustful Voters, Trustworthy Politicians: A Survey Experiment on the Influence of Social Mediain Politics

Trustful Voters, Trustworthy Politicians: A Survey Experiment on the Influence of Social Mediain Politics

Abstract

Recent increases in uncivil dialogue, political polarization, and fake news in social media raise questions about the relationship between negative online messages and the decline in political trust. We implement atrust game in a survey experiment with 4,800 respondents in Brazil and Mexico

Publication
Working Paper, Under Review