How does the experience of economic shocks affect individuals' political views and voting
behavior? Inspired partly by the fallout of the financial crisis of 2008, research on this …

In recent years, there has been a surge in the study of representation and elections in local
politics. Scholars have made progress on many of the empirical barriers that stymied earlier …

Placebo tests are increasingly common in applied social science research, but the
methodological literature has not previously offered a comprehensive account of what we …

Retrospective voting is a crucial component of democratic accountability. A large literature
on retrospective voting in the United States finds that the president's party is rewarded in …

Recent studies of economic voting have focused on the role of the local economy, but with
inconclusive results. We argue that while local economic conditions affect incumbent …

Does the state of the economy condition public concern for the environment? Scholars have
long argued that environmental preferences decline during economic downturns as …

In the contemporary context, it is inescapable that racism is a factor in US public opinion.
When scholars take stock of the way we typically measure and conceptualize racism, we find …

Debates over the extent to which racial attitudes and economic distress explain voting
behavior in the 2016 election have tended to be limited in scope, focusing on the extent to …

Between early March and 1 August 2020, COVID-19 took the lives of more than 150,000
Americans. Here, we examine the political consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic using …

Does motivated reasoning harm democratic accountability? Substantial evidence from
political behavior research indicates that voters have “directional motives” beyond accuracy …