Week 4 - Discussant: Adrian Blattner

The political landscape of Brazil is deeply divided. This has sparked a debate among scholars and policymakers about what types of interventions could be leveraged to reduce polarization. In this project, we partner with several NGOs and Brazilian news outlets to address the following research questions: First, what is the effect of interventions promoting interactions between opposing partisans? Second, what are the factors limiting partisans’ interest in interactions with opposing partisans? Third, what interventions can increase partisans’ willingness to participate? Finally, how can the impact of depolarization interventions be scaled to the broader public?