Historically there has been a relative dearth of social science research into civic education—
even in political science, a discipline that had civic education as one of its founding …

How powerful are political parties in shaping citizens' opinions? Despite long‐standing
interest in the flow of influence between partisan elites and citizens, few studies to date …

Partisanship often colors how citizens perceive real‐world conditions. For example, an oft‐
documented finding is that citizens tend to view the state of the national economy more …

Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African
politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential …

South Africa's 1996 Constitution ushered in a democratic regime that brought new freedoms
and rights and greatly expanded opportunities for political participation. In 1998, South …

Dispute resolution institutions facilitate agreements and preserve the peace whenever
property rights are imperfect. In weak states, strengthening formal institutions can take …

This article outlines three theoretical arguments—socialization, status discontent, and elite
cues—that generate competing predictions about the way context shapes gender attitudes …

Developing democracies are experiencing unprecedented increases in primary and
secondary schooling. To identify education's long-run political effects, we use a difference-in …

In distributing clientelistic payoffs to citizens, the best strategy a party machine can pursue,
we argue, is to target citizens who are opinion-leading epicenters in informal conversation …

This article examines two unexplored questions concerning the impact of civic education
programs in emerging democracies:(1) whether such programs have longer-terms effects …