Participatory practices at work change attitudes and behavior toward societal authority and justice

Local participatory experiences can influence broader democratic attitudes and participation. Here, in two field experiments in US and China, the authors find that participatory work meetings led workers to be less authoritarian and more critical about societal authority and justice, and more willin...

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Main Authors: Sherry Jueyu Wu, Elizabeth Levy Paluck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16383-6
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spelling doaj-87806ba84cf44f2c974f486d123e0af12021-05-30T11:15:42ZengNature Publishing GroupNature Communications2041-17232020-05-011111810.1038/s41467-020-16383-6Participatory practices at work change attitudes and behavior toward societal authority and justiceSherry Jueyu Wu0Elizabeth Levy Paluck1Collins Center A-415, Anderson School of Management, University of California Los Angeles420 Peretsman Scully Hall, Department of Psychology, Princeton UniversityLocal participatory experiences can influence broader democratic attitudes and participation. Here, in two field experiments in US and China, the authors find that participatory work meetings led workers to be less authoritarian and more critical about societal authority and justice, and more willing to participate in political and social decision-making.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16383-6
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