The Belgian Tetris revisited: the influence of political knowledge on the impact of metaphors

Federalism is often presented through metaphors, such as the metaphor of the family or of a – crazy – machine, but little is known about the impact of such metaphors on citizens. In the two previous editions of the Conference Belgium: The State of the Federation, we presented two experiments assessing the impact of the real-life Tetris metaphor on citizens’ representations and preferences about federalism. The two experiments, conducted on French-speaking Belgian students, was made of different groups, controlling for the presence, in a text, of a metaphor. The results showed that being expose... Mehr ...