▪ Abstract Recent commentary points to clear increases in ideological polarization between
the major American political parties. We review the theoretical and empirical literature on …

" The book's combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political
attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it... I have yet to find another text that accomplishes …

We construct dynamic measures of the ideology of a state's citizens and political leaders,
using the roll call voting scores of state congressional delegations, the outcomes 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 …

The political parties in Congress are as polarized as they have been in 100 years. This book
examines more than 30 years of congressional history to understand how it is that the …

Recruitment to legislative office is one of the core functions of political systems, yet we know
little about how the process varies from one country to another. Passages to Power provides …

Berry et al.'s (1998) measures of US state citizen and government ideology rely on
unadjusted interest-group ratings for a state's members of Congress to infer information …

We use responses to a large-scale national survey designed to oversample political activists
to investigate the extent to which participant publics are representative of the public as a …

Party activists have played a leading role in “conflict extension”—the polarization of the
parties along multiple issue dimensions—in contemporary American politics. We argue that …

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 …