By: Jennifer Wolak
- Investigates Americans' support of political compromise and how people balance partisan desires against principled thinking about democratic norms
- Utilizes a multi-method approach that combines survey evidence and numerous innovative survey experiments
- Challenges conventional wisdom about the partisan demands of the electorate
- Highlights the complexity of how people reason about how government should proceed in times of political division
- Covers the bounds and extent of public support for compromise in-depth and with greater detail than any prior accounts