Amel Ahmed
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
2023-2024 ISSR Scholars Project Title: Framing Democracy: Can Democracy Frames Impact Support for Competition and Inclusion?
Recent scholarship has warned that the American public’s democratic commitments are weakening, a phenomenon that could pose serious threats of democratic backsliding in the U.S.. In this project, I address these concerns with special attention to the complexity of conceptualizing backsliding as a phenomenon and the difficulties of querying the public about potential backsliding events. Using a mixed method approach, I examine whether explicitly framing and strongly signaling that a policy is good for democracy increases support for the policy.