This paper investigates online propaganda strategies of the Internet Research Agency (IRA)—
Russian “trolls”—during the 2016 US presidential election. We assess claims that the IRA …

Has the US Supreme Court become more conservative than the public? We introduce
results of three surveys conducted over the course of a decade that ask respondents about …

With the increasing use of “machine learning” methods in political science new terminology
is introduced to our field. While most political methodologists extensively learned how to …

Do citizens hold congressional candidates accountable for their policy positions? Recent
studies reach different conclusions on this important question. In line with the predictions of …

The fact that equitable social policy expanded drastically in Latin America during the left turn
and during a time of prosperity does not necessarily mean that the ideological color of …

Does public campaign financing improve representation by reducing politicians' reliance on
wealthy donors as advocates claim, or does it worsen representation by expanding the …

Contemporary efforts to evaluate representation often compare survey measures of how
citizens say they would vote on legislation to what elected officials do in office. These …

We present a novel approach to disentangle the effects of ideology, partisanship, and
constituency pressures on roll‐call voting. First, we place voters and legislators on a …

While scholars posit an electoral link between congressional approval and majority party
electoral fortunes, it is unclear whether citizens are grounding their assessments of approval …

Opinion surveys often employ multiple items to measure the respondent's underlying value,
belief, or attitude. To analyze such types of data, researchers have often followed a two-step …