Feeling Democracy: Emotions and Democratic Innovations

Abstract

This panel explores the role of emotions in democracy and democratic innovations, especially concerning contentious politics and disagreements. Papers draw on a diverse set of innovative methods--including surveys, survey experiments, field experiments, and qualitative and quantitative analysis of interviews--to address this important area of research. They examine a variety of discrete emotions and emotional process to understand better the effects of emotions on key components of democracy, such as citizen participation, deliberation, misinformation correction, polarization, and negative politics. The focus of the analyses ranges from individual citizens to local public policy to sub-national and national policy debates to deliberation on international news. The panel will demonstrate that emotions are, and will continue to be, vital for the functioning and maintenance of democracy in our challenging times.

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Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied and disadvantaged citizens make sense of deliberation	View Paper Details
Grievance Politics: An Empirical Analysis of Anger through the Emotional Mechanism of Ressentiment	View Paper Details
How citizens’ emotion regulation strategies predict emotions and citizen participation	View Paper Details
The Effects of Argument Visualization Platforms and Empathy Induction on Emotions in Online News Comments	View Paper Details