If citizens are to hold politicians accountable for their performance, they probably must have
some sense of the relevant facts, such as whether the economy is growing. In surveys …

How effective is fact checking in countervailing “alternative facts,” ie, misleading statements
by politicians? In a randomized online experiment during the 2017 French presidential …

Concerns about public opinion-based threats to American democracy are often tied to
evidence of partisan bias in factual perceptions. However, influential work on expressive …

Models of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences and that
candidates adjust their platforms to conform with those preferences; however, the direction …

Defining ideology as a system of functionally inter-connected political attitudes and beliefs,
we review evidence concerning (1) the nature and origins of ideology in mass publics and …

We test whether the original median voter theorem's result of political convergence in a two-
party system holds when the control variables that influence voters' preferences …

How does the US public evaluate claims attributing responsibility for a cyberattack? It seems
plausible that political factors complicate how the US public judges attribution claims. In this …

Partisanship and political polarization are salient features of today's society. We merge
deeds records with voter rolls and show that political polarization is more than just “political …

Attitudes and expectations towards others are major drivers of political polarization.
However, there is limited understanding of their relevance when decisions with high stakes …

We investigate the long-lasting effects on behaviour of relative age at school. We conduct an
online incentivised survey with a sample of 1007 adults, who were born at most two months …