The rapid rise of Twitter and other social media tools has enticed many members of
Congress to personally use these services. Such waves of technological adoption are …

▪ Abstract Are party identifications relatively fixed features on the political landscape in the
United States and elsewhere? If they are relatively fixed, do identifications move substantive …

Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain,
the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain …

Party identification is central to the study of American political behavior, yet there remains
disagreement over whether it is largely instrumental or expressive in nature. We draw on …

Folk wisdom has long held that people become more politically conservative as they grow
older, although several empirical studies suggest political attitudes are stable across time …

This is the first comprehensive critical evaluation of the use of rational choice explanations in
political science. Writing in an accessible and nontechnical style, Donald P. Green and Ian …

I examine the impact of long-term partisan loyalties on perceptions of specific political
figures and events. In contrast to the notion of partisanship as a simple “running tally” of …

Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are
counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of …

From World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique
moments in US political history—but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. To make …

Over the past half century, two overarching questions have dominated the study of mass
political behavior: How do ordinary citizens form their political judgments, and how good are …