Are people conservative (liberal) because they are Republicans (Democrats)? Or is it the
reverse: people are Republicans (Democrats) because they are conservatives (liberals) …

Significant theories of democratic accountability hinge on how political campaigns affect
Americans' candidate choices. We argue that the best estimate of the effects of campaign …

A deeply heterogeneous set of ideological cohorts have shaped the course of history. From
anarchists and authoritarians to Zionists and Zapatistas, the expansive alphabet of politics …

Moderates are often overlooked in contemporary research on American voters. Many
scholars who have examined moderates argue that these individuals are only classified as …

Ideology is a central construct in political psychology. Even so, the field's strong claims about
an ideological public rarely engage evidence of enormous individual differences: a minority …

Do voters have stable immigration views? While any account of immigration politics must
make an assumption about whether underlying attitudes are stable, the literature has been …

Many political scientists believe that partisanship is an arbitrary psychological attachment
that exerts a drug-like effect on voters' decisions. An implication is that voters don't care …

American political parties continue to grow more polarized, but the extent of ideological
polarization among the public is much less than the extent of perceived polarization (what …

Do political parties influence opinion when citizens have a personal stake in policy? With an
experimental design that exploits a naturally occurring, sharp variation in party cues, we …

We investigate the relationship between attitude instability and both party identity strength
and ideology strength. We test the explorative hypotheses that higher party identity strength …