This chapter provides an overview of one framework that can help answer the questions: the
Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). It begins with a summary of the intellectual …

Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result,
people face an increasing need to integrate information from science with their personal …

As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social
media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like …

Decision scientists have identified various plausible sources of ideological polarization over
climate change, gun violence, national security, and like issues that turn on empirical …

We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have
been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact …

Employing a national probability survey in 2012, this study tests relationships between
social media, social network service (SNS) network heterogeneity, and opinion polarization …

A provocative, timely analysis that asks: What does science tells us about the bias that
poisons our politics? We don't live in a 'post-truth'society—but a 'myside'society in which no …

Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Rush Limbaugh
Show, National Public Radio--with so many options, where do people turn for news? In …

There are well-understood psychological limits on our capacity to process information. As
information proliferation—the consumption and sharing of information—increases through …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is a framework of the policy process developed
by Paul A. Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith to deal with" wicked" problems–those involving …