For more than two decades political scientists have discussed rising elite polarization in the
United States, but the study of mass polarization did not receive comparable attention until …

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 …

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in
states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small …

“A short review cannot convey the rich variety of arguments and data Bartels deploys in
making his case…. Bartels shows that social issues do not create as strong a headwind …

This article develops a model for analyzing social identity and applies it to the political
economy of income redistribution, focusing on class and national identities. The model …

Although the rational choice approach toward political behavior has been severely criticized,
its adherents claim that competing models have failed to offer a more scientific model of …

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 …

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or
rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases …

As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in
the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in …

Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and
2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history …