Title: "The Civic Counterculture? Understanding Attitudes Toward Democracy" (joint work with Guy Grossman, Dorothy Kronick, and Matthew Levendusky)

Abstract: This is a work-in-progress pre-analysis plan for a survey experiment that we are constructing to shed light on Americans views towards democratic norms. This experiment is motivated by a number examples following the 2016 elections in which elected officials took actions that appeared inconsistent with voters' choices. We attempt to address three questions in this experiment. First, how does the public view efforts to weaken democratic institutions? Second, when members of the public are willing to undermine democratic institutions, why are they willing to do so? In particular, we are interested in how partisanship shape how people respond to these violations of democratic norms. Third, how do American update their beliefs about the resiliency of democratic institutions when they learn about recent violations of democratic norms?