Do state-level exams in civics have a positive impact on young people's civic knowledge?
We hypothesize that civics exams have the biggest effect in states where they are a …

What influences political behavior more--one's gender or one's gendered personality traits?
Certain gendered traits have long been associated with particular political leanings in …

Almost since its inception, the internet has been seen as a means of reinvigorating political
knowledge and engagement among the young. Early studies showed small but significant …

Online communities provide a fertile ground for analyzing people's behavior and improving
our understanding of social processes. Because both people and communities change over …

Recently the causal influence of education on political knowledge has been questioned.
Rather, pre-adult predispositions such as personality traits and intelligence are proposed as …

Design, Meaning and Choice in Direct Democracy examines the link between political
knowledge and participation in direct democracy in the United States. Presenting insights on …

According to many indicators, the integration of women into the US political system proceeds
apace. Voter turnout among women now exceeds that of men, and the trend is for this gap to …

Studies of gender and American political life most often focus only on women. This book fills
the gap by examining and comparing the roles and behavior of both men and women in …

The assumption that representatives hold knowledge about their parties' programmes
underlies models of representative democracy. However, representatives' party knowledge …

1 Forschungsfrage Systematische Differenzen entlang ethnischer1 Gruppenmerkmale
können als ethnische Ungleichheiten bezeichnet werden. 2 Sie kommen in einer Vielzahl …