The partisan and ideological polarization of American politics since the 1970s appears to
have affected pubic opinion in striking ways. The American public has become increasingly …

Public opinion polarization is here conceived as a process of alignment along multiple lines
of potential disagreement and measured as growing constraint in individuals' preferences …

Why have so many established political parties across Latin America collapsed in recent
years? Party Brands in Crisis offers an explanation that highlights the effect of elite actions …

Efforts to reform the US campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence
of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms …

Is Bipartisanship Dead? looks beyond (and considers the time before) roll call voting to
examine the extent to which bipartisan agreement in the House of Representatives has …

In this article we bring together opposing international relations theories to better understand
US foreign policy, in particular foreign trade and aid. Using votes in the US House of …

According to mainstream opinion, the George W. Bush administration's assertive
unilateralism represents a temporary departure from the traditional foreign policy of the …

Abstract Can the United States continue to shape international politics as it has done for the
past 70 years, or is the era of US preponderance coming to an end? Most attempts to …

In an era of increasingly public diplomacy, conventional wisdom assumes that leaders who
compromise damage their reputations and lose the respect of their constituents, which …

" A substantial contribution to understanding the role of public opinion and the news media
during the Iraq War. Equally impressive, it effectively puts the domestic context of US policy …