One of the major developments in political science in the past decade has been the rise of
experiments and surveys on political elites. Yet, the increase in the number of elite studies …

In this review, we focus on political inequality in rich democracies. In the two main sections,
we look at participation and representation, respectively. The former discusses whether …

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

The Trump presidency generated concern about democratic backsliding and renewed
interest in measuring the national democratic performance of the United States. However …

Political misperceptions can distort public debate and undermine people's ability to form
meaningful opinions. Why do people often hold these false or unsupported beliefs, and why …

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today
than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about …

Legislative staff link Members of Congress and their constituents, theoretically facilitating
democratic representation. Yet, little research has examined whether Congressional staff …

The conservative asymmetry of elite polarization represents a significant puzzle. We argue
that politicians can maintain systematic misperceptions of constituency opinion that may …

Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at
least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785 …

Many theories of international relations assume that public opinion exerts a powerful effect
on foreign policy in democracies. Previous research, based on observational data, has …