This essay reviews two research programs. The first focuses on variations in the number of
women elected to national parliaments in the world (descriptive representation), and the …

This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the
changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which …

Survey experiments are a core tool for causal inference. Yet, the design of classical survey
experiments prevents them from identifying which components of a multidimensional …

An enduring concern about democracies is that citizens conform too readily to the policy
views of elites in their own parties, even to the point of ignoring other information about the …

We show that the demand for news varies with the perceived affinity of the news
organization to the consumer's political preferences. In an experimental setting …

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or
rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases …

Campaign organizers and the media appear to agree that voters' perceptions of party
leaders have an important impact in elections: considerable effort is made to ensure that …

There has been extensive research into the extent to which voters utilise short cuts based on
gender and race stereotypes when evaluating candidates, but relatively little is known about …

Using an innovative framework for the study of voting behavior in parliamentary
democracies, this book sheds new light on the ongoing personalization of politics. The …

Anatomy of a Liberal Victory: Making Sense of the Vote in the 2000 Canadian Election
provides a compressive account of the factors that led Canadians to vote the way they did in …