The study of emotion in politics has been active, especially as it relates to the personality of
political leaders and as an explanation for how people evaluate significant features around …

This review concerns political preferences—what they are and where they come from. We
begin by documenting the close relationship between processes of preference formation …

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data
from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and …

We document a large and consequential bias in how Americans perceive the major political
parties: people tend to considerably overestimate the extent to which party supporters …

Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth:
citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very …

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in the partisan polarization of the
American electorate. Scholarly investigation of this topic has coincided with the media's …

A key characteristic of democratic politics is competition between groups, first of all political
parties. Yet, the unavoidably partisan nature of political conflict has had too little influence on …

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote—or mouse—we
can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are …

The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that
convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes …

In this authoritative study, three political scientists demonstrate that identification with
political parties powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots." …