This article considers the impact of public opinion on public policy, asking:(1) how much
impact it has;(2) how much the impact increases as the salience of issues increases;(3) to …

This article reviews evidence for the effects of public opinion on court decision-making,
capital punishment policy and use, correctional expenditures, and incarceration rates. It also …

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of
American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions …

Democratic and Republican partisans dislike the opposing party and its leaders far more
than in the past. However, recent studies have argued that the rise of affective polarization in …

One of the most important developments affecting electoral competition in the United States
has been the increasingly partisan behavior of the American electorate. Yet more voters …

America faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected
schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of …

I develop a method to measure the ideology of candidates and contributors using campaign
finance data. Combined with a data set of over 100 million contribution records from state …

We propose a theory of political parties in which interest groups and activists are the key
actors, and coalitions of groups develop common agendas and screen candidates for party …

" 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 …

Using eight decades of data, we examine the magnitude, mechanisms, and moderators of
dynamic responsiveness in the American states. We show that on both economic and …