If nothing else, democratic politics requires compromise. Mass polarization, where citizens
disagree strongly and those disagreements magnify over time, presents obvious threats to …

At its core, democratic politics involves the transmission of information. Indeed, the
electorate communicates its preferences to elites through public expressions of opinion …

The randomized assignment of units to treatment status provided by an experiment provides
unparalleled leverage to understand the average causal effect of an assigned treatment. Yet …