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SUMMARY:Horacio Larreguy - Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\nAccountability under Polarization\n\n\nAbstract:\nPolitical polarizatio
 n can negatively impact electoral accountability by influencing how citizen
 s perceive and process incumbent performance information. We study how such
  information affects voting behavior in a polarized environment, and how th
 is varies when additionally treating citizens with a debiasing nudge to inc
 orporate counter-attitudinal information. In particular, we experimentally 
 evaluate the electoral effects of a local CSO's Facebook ad campaign provid
 ing citizens with benchmarked information about COVID-19 cases and deaths i
 n 500 Mexican municipalities in the run-up to the 2021 elections.  On 
 its own, the information had a backfiring effect, increasing (reducing) the
  vote share received by the local incumbent party with relatively high (low
 ) levels of COVID-19 cases and deaths. These effects are driven by areas wi
 th high past vote share for the incumbent, higher shares of citizens with c
 ommunal values, and behavior indicative of more-stressed citizens. The rand
 omly assigned debiasing nudge, however, reversed the backfiring: voters ele
 ctorally rewarded (punished) incumbents with relatively low (high) levels o
 f COVID-19 cases and deaths. Our findings demonstrate how biases in informa
 tion processing can undermine electoral accountability in polarized context
 s and document the potential for nudges to restore electoral accountability
 . \n
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