Political actions and outcomes depend on people's preferences over candidates, policies,
and other politically relevant phenomena. For this reason, a great deal of political activity …

Scholars of democracy proposes an important relationship between the quality of elections
and democratic legitimacy, but there are few studies of how the conduct of elections affects …

Carmines and Stimson's theory of racial issue evolution has strongly influenced scholarly
and popular interpretations of US party politics. The central proposition of this theory is that …

One of the strongest regularities in the empirical political science literature is the well-known
correlation in parent and child partisan behavior. Until recently, this phenomenon was …

Rather than adhering to the cost-benefit calculus often employed in the study of turnout, a
recent stream in this literature refers to voting as habit forming. The empirical findings …

Utilizing quantitative genetic models, the authors examine the sources of party identification
and the intensity of that identification. The results indicate genes exert little, if any, influence …

Academic social scientists overwhelmingly vote Democratic, and the Democratic hegemony
has increased significantly since 1970. Moreover, the policy preferences of a large sample …

In the study of political knowledge, the emphasis on facts is misplaced. Evidence has grown
that predispositions and social contexts shape how individuals are exposed to and interpret …

Children are more likely to adopt their family's political views when politics is important to
their parents, and the children of politically engaged parents tend to become politically …

The impressionable years thesis asserts that early adulthood is accompanied by increased
attitudinal vulnerability. Although there is tentative empirical evidence to support this idea, it …