This article reviews recent survey-based research on citizens' trust in government, focusing
particularly on the United States. It addresses the long-term decline in trust and potential …

The psychology of cultural dynamics is the psychological investigation of the formation,
maintenance, and transformation of culture over time. This article maps out the terrain …

This introduction to the special issue “Beyond Fake News: The Politics of Disinformation”
contains four main sections. In the first, we discuss the major sociopolitical factors that have …

Is support for democracy in the United States robust enough to deter undemocratic behavior
by elected politicians? We develop a model of the public as a democratic check and …

From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized
power. Two core components of liberal democracy—individual rights and the popular will …

This article introduces a novel conceptualization of democratic resilience-a two-stage
process where democracies avoid democratic declines altogether or avert democratic …

Most Republicans in a January 2020 survey agreed that “the traditional American way of life
is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.” More than 40% agreed that …

Scholarly and journalistic accounts of the recent successes of radical‐right politics in Europe
and the United States, including the Brexit referendum and the Trump campaign, tend to …

RT (formerly, Russia Today) is one of the most important organizations in the global political
economy of disinformation. It is the most richly funded, well-staffed, formal organization in …

In recent years, parties and candidates challenging key democratic norms have won
unprecedented popular support in liberal democracies across the globe. Drawing on public …