Although it is widely known that the self-reported turnout rates obtained from public opinion
surveys tend to substantially overestimate actual turnout rates, scholars sharply disagree on …

Patriotism is conceived of as a national-level concept. I posit that people hold similarly
strong feelings toward their municipal area. Based on long-standing the-ories of patriotism in …

Satisfaction with democracy is a critical supporting element of any democratic process,
though a robust literature demonstrates that such satisfaction is contingent on numerous …

Through an analysis of validated voters in the 2016 American National Election Study, this
article considers the voters who supported Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016. More than …

Recent research suggests widespread misperception about the political views of others.
Measuring perceptions often relies on instruments that do not separate uncertainty from …

Ansolabehere and Hersh and others have examined the reported voting behavior of survey
respondents using a variety of validation methods, including matching with national voter …

Applying a media market boundary approach to individual survey data, I show that political
advertising on television increases the probability that viewers who identify with a party will …

It is now a well-documented fact of survey research that Black survey respondents
overreport turning out to vote at higher rates than many of their peers of other racial and …

Applying a media market boundary discontinuity approach to individual survey data, we
show that political advertising on television serves mainly to consolidate viewers' prior …

The substantial gap in electoral participation between upper and lower socioeconomic
status groups has long been a vexing problem for modern democracies and one that …