Empathy and Political Reasoning

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Empathy and Political Reasoning: How Empathy Promotes Reflection and Strengthens Democracy
	Contents
	1 Introduction
	2 Theory: Empathy, Deliberative Institutions, and Reflection
		2.1 Conceptualizing Reflective Thinking
		2.2 Empathy for the Other Side Engenders More Reflective
Political Thinking
		2.3 Political Institutions that Induce Empathy for the Other Side
	3 Measurement and Empirical Strategy
		3.1 Measuring Reflection
		3.2 Measurement of Empathy
		3.3 Research Methods
	4 Study 1: Empathy for the Other Side and Policy Attitudes on Universal Basic Income
		4.1 Issue Context
		4.2 Study Design
		4.3 Sample
		4.4 Measures
		4.5 Results
		4.6 Discussion
	5 Study 2: Political Institutions that Elicit Empathy for the Other Side – The Irish Citizens’ Assembly (2016–2018)
		5.1 Description of the ICA
		5.2 Case Selection
		5.3 The ICA and Empathy
		5.4 The ICA and Reflection
		5.5 The ICA and Partisan Politics
		5.6 Discussion and Limitations
	6 Studies 3 to 5: Interpersonal Deliberation and Reflection – Evidence from Experimental Studies
		6.1 Three Experiments
		6.2 Study 3: A Quasi-Experiment in Belgium
		6.3 Study 4: A Laboratory Experiment in the UK
		6.4 Study 5: A Survey Experiment in Chile and the UK
		6.5 Discussion
	7 Discussion and Conclusion
		7.1 Contributions
		7.2 Limitations and Future Research
		7.3 Scaling Up Interpersonal Deliberation?
		7.4 Concluding Remarks
References
Acknowledgments