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SUMMARY:amse seminar - Horacio Larreguy
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DESCRIPTION:Political polarization\, by distorting how citizens process obj
 ective information about government performance\, can undermine electoral a
 ccountability. We study whether citizens in a highly polarized environment 
 can be nudged to become receptive to incorporating information about govern
 ment performance in their electoral behavior. We supported a local NGO to d
 esign and implement a field experiment that exposed some Mexican citizens\,
  via targeted Facebook ads\, to benchmarked information about COVID-19 case
 s and deaths in their municipality prior to the 2021 elections. In municipa
 lities with high relative levels of COVID-19 cases and deaths\, the informa
 tion had a backfiring effect\, increasing the fraction of the vote received
  by the local incumbent party with relatively high levels of COVID-19 cases
  and deaths. A randomly assigned anti-polarization treatment\, however\, re
 versed the backfiring . In the anti-polarization condition\, voters rewarde
 d incumbents with relatively low levels of COVID-19 cases and deaths. The b
 ackfiring effect is driven by areas with high past vote share for the incum
 bent\, higher shares of citizens with communal values\, and behavior indica
 tive of more stressed citizens. Our findings show the potential for nudges 
 to enable the communication of objective information even in polarized cont
 exts with high levels of mistrust and heightened emotions.\\n\\nContact: Ew
 en Gallic : ewen.gallic[at]univ-amu.frAvner Seror : avner.seror[at]univ-amu
 .fr\n\nPlus d'informations: https://amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/hora
 cio-larreguy
LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevar
 d Maurice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
URL;VALUE=URI:https://amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/horacio-larreguy
CONTACT:Ewen Gallic : ewen.gallic[at]univ-amu.frAvner Seror : avner.seror[a
 t]univ-amu.fr
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