Compromise is an essential part of the democratic process. Moreover, for parliamentary politics to function in multiparty systems, compromise between parties is necessary for policy formulation and coalition formation. If citizens are unwilling to accept that their representatives, they risk not being governed at all. Recent results suggest that democratic citizens are overwhelmingly positive towards compromise – at least in the abstract (Wolak 2020, Green-Pedersen and Hjermitslev 2023). However, others have found that voters are skeptical of the compromise that their own party support, especially on specific issues that are particularly salient to them (Fortunato 2021, Plescia, Ecker, and Meyer 2022). This experiment tries to bridge the gap between these two opposite conclusions by exploring the effects of three contextual factors[1]: (1) Are compromises interpreted through partisan lenses? (2) What is the role of setting realistic expectations (i.e. is compromise evaluate pro- or retrospectively)? (3) Are citizens positive towards the abstract idea of compromise and negative towards concrete pledge non-fulfillment? The experiment was implemented shortly before the 2025 federal election in Germany.