Do citizens enjoy talking politics? How political and social dispositions shape our attitudes towards political conversations

Mannheim
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Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)
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2024,

Neumann, Manuel, Maxim Ziegler, Clarissa Périssé
ISSN: 2748-5994

Many ideas for improving modern democracy are built on the active engagement of citizens in political conversations with each other. In our study, however, we find that few people actually have a positive attitude towards political talk. In explaining this phenomenon, the social aspects outweigh the political ones.