Corruption: A Study in Political Economy focuses on the problem of corruptions in political
economy and functional bribery. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 11 …

From World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique
moments in US political history—but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. To make …

Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and
2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history …

Page 1 Issue Evolution Page 2 Page 3 ISSUE EVOLUTION Race and the Transformation of
American Politics EDWARD G. CARMINES JAMES A. STIMSON PRINCE TON UNIVERSITY …

From Stokes's (1963) early critique on, it has been clear to empirical researchers that the
traditional spatial theory of elections is seriously flawed. Yet fully a quarter century later, that …

Debates over the political sophistication of mass publics smolder on. The more fundamental
question, however, is why people become as politically sophisticated or unsophisticated as …

Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political
decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political …

Both implicit democratic norms and the reconstructions provided by theorists of rational
choice suggest that issue voters are more sophisticated–educated, informed, and active in …

Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches,
widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and …

By incorporating emotionality, we propose to enrich information-processing models of
citizens' behavior during election campaigns. We demonstrate that two distinct dynamic …