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 …

Is the US Congress dysfunctional? The American public thinks so: In the summer of 2014,
just 7% approved strongly of Congress. Still, legislative scholars disagree about the severity …

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of
American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions …

The current debate over the extent of polarization in the American mass public focuses on
the extent to which partisans' policy preferences have moved. Whereas “maximalists” claim …

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 …

I develop a method to measure the ideology of candidates and contributors using campaign
finance data. Combined with a data set of over 100 million contribution records from state …

Rarely these days does a news cycle pass without new stories of political dysfunction in
Washington, DC New reports of stalemates, fiscal cliffs, and failed grand bargains have …

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or
presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide …

Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been
accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality. The idea of America as …

Scholars of the US House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the
legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional …