The seventeenth edition of Party Politics in America continues the comprehensive and
authoritative coverage of political parties for which it is known while expanding and updating …

The geographic idiosyncrasies of states and media markets set the stage for a natural
experiment in which residents of a given state may be exposed to widely varying quantities …

Reformers lament that, with every effort to regulate the sources of campaign funding,
candidates creatively circumvent the new legislation. But in fact, political fundraisers don't …

The 2002 enactment of the first major reform of US federal campaign-finance law in a
quarter century featured a more substantial engagement of political scientists—through …

In this study, we examine the impact of sponsorship cues in issue versus candidate
advertising on perceived credibility, persuasion, information retention, and priming of …

From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining
superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid …

During the past fifty years American democracy has been transformed by the collapse of non-
ideological and decentralized traditional party organizations and also by the emergence of …

A new understanding of what really matters in our elections Prevailing wisdom holds that the
pivot of American political campaigns has shifted over the past century from the parties to the …

Does exposure to political TV ads affect voter turnout? And does the effect depend on
whether the ads are positive or negative? Comparing areas that in 2014 were accidentally …

Debates about campaign finance often point to television advertising as a major reason for
the high cost of campaigning, but the debates are too rarely informed by systematic data on …