For more than two decades political scientists have discussed rising elite polarization in the
United States, but the study of mass polarization did not receive comparable attention until …

Scholarly research has demonstrated rather conclusively that American political elites have
undergone a marked partisan polarization over the past thirty years. There is less …

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of
American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of US politics? Analyzing
multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential …

At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many
commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be …

We measure the persuasive effects of slanted news and tastes for like-minded news,
exploiting cable channel positions as exogenous shifters of cable news viewership. Channel …

We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American
South in part trace their origins to slavery's prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites …

Partisan Americans like members of their own party more than members of the opposing
party. Scholars often interpret this as evidence that party identity or loyalty influence …

Rarely these days does a news cycle pass without new stories of political dysfunction in
Washington, DC New reports of stalemates, fiscal cliffs, and failed grand bargains have …

Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models is a comprehensive
manual for the applied researcher who wants to perform data analysis using linear and …