Political science generally treats identities such as ethnicity, religion, and sexuality as
“unmoved movers” in the chain of causality. I hypothesize that the growing salience of …

Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, including its origins in political
socialization, its role in the electoral process, and the impact of the media, American Public …

This chapter presents a literature review expanding research on political socialization to
development of political attitudes and behavior over the full life course. The fundamental …

Asymmetric social alignments are transforming American partisan rhetoric, particularly how
politicians leverage identity-based appeals. For example, asymmetric religious, racial, and …

American society is rapidly secularizing–a radical departure from its historically high level of
religiosity–and politics is a big part of the reason. Just as, forty years ago, the Religious …

White evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election,
producing extensive debate as to who evangelicals are, what it means to be an evangelical …

In studying US partisanship, scholars often invoke a groups approach, wherein individuals'
group memberships affect their identification with the Democratic and Republican Parties …

More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion," There
are few major subjects about which men know so little, yet feel so certain." Samuel L. Perry …

While there is increasing interest in the topic of spirituality, scholars have limited data on its
meaning among ordinary Americans. Based on an open‐ended question in a new nationally …

We investigate perceptions of tweets marked with the# BlackLivesMatter and#
AllLivesMatter hashtags, as well as how the presence or absence of those hashtags …