US historical accounts of partisanship recognize its contentiousness and its inherent, latent
threat of violence, but social scientific conceptions of partisan identity developed in …

Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

Based on social comparison and social identity theory, we argue that average partisans in
contemporary US politics view elections as group competitions in which partisan identities …

The dominant narrative among scholars and political pundits characterizes American
partisanship as overwhelmingly negative, portraying citizens as more repelled by the …

For the most part, scholars who study American political parties in the electorate continue to
characterize them as weak and in decline. Parties on the elite level, however, have …

The study of political parties and voter partisanship has come full circle in 4 decades. During
the 1960s and 1970s numerous scholars advanced the thesis of party decline, contending …

Incumbents often seek to wield power in ways that are formally legal but informally
proscribed. Why do voters endorse these power grabs? Prior literature focuses on …

Partisanship continues to divide Americans. Using data from the American National Election
Studies (ANES), we find that partisans not only feel more negatively about the opposing …

One of the most important developments affecting electoral competition in the United States
has been the increasingly partisan behavior of the American electorate. Yet more voters …

“This is a fascinating book. It is one of the best studies of the ways that parties and politics
get conducted in any American state. Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content …