Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political
decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political …

With the latest data on income, wealth, earnings, and residential segregation by income, The
American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, Tenth Edition describes a …

They have money, influence, power-and they turn out to vote." They" are groups like Focus
on the Family, Family Research Council, and Concerned Women for America (all parts of the …

This article examines the surprising outcome of the 2016 presidential election, which saw
Donald Trump defy nearly all of the conventional wisdom to become the 45th president of …

By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more
divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we …

This study uses data on campaign contributions and methods of network analysis to
investigate the significance of interlocking directorates for political cohesion among …

Nothing is more important in the life of a democratic nation than its elections, and no issue is
more controversial in American elections than the role of money. This book is about …

Understanding why donors give money to legislative candidates is vital for assessing how
money influences politics. In this paper, I test theories of why political action committees …

It has been predicted that term limits in state legislatures--soon to be in effect in eighteen
states--will first affect the composition of the legislatures, next the behavior of legislators, and …

Individuals are the single largest source of campaign contributions, yet we know little about
their motivations. For instance, the existing literature questions whether individual …