Representative democracy is party democracy. Parties vote together in the legislative arena;
party labels act as information shortcuts in the electoral arena, tying together co-partisan …

While there are many formal models that generate predictions about polarization, only a
handful address the question of how, with no change in electoral rules, levels of polarization …

The conservative asymmetry of elite polarization represents a significant puzzle. We argue
that politicians can maintain systematic misperceptions of constituency opinion that may …

Do party policy offerings simply reflect public opinion or do parties shape public demand for
policies? Theories of party position-taking and the operation of democracy expect parties to …

Politicians' dual responsibilities to respect their party and also be responsive to their
constituents is surprisingly lacking in studies of representation. How do politicians …

How do electoral institutions affect self-identified partisanship? I hypothesize that party
registration acts to anchor a person's party identification, tying a person to a political party …

The preceding chapter provided striking evidence that party identifications are weakening in
most advanced industrial democracies. Because party identification has been central to …

My doctoral dissertation begins with this puzzle: why do large, moderate parties sometimes
select leaders who seem to help improve their parties' electoral performances, but other …

Partisan dealignment is recurrently presented in the literature as one of the main drivers of
the 'personalisation of politics'. Yet, on the one hand, the claim that leader effects on voting …