Recent research has shown that state reporting to human rights monitoring bodies is
associated with improvements in rights practices, calling into question earlier claims that self …

Voter turnout has puzzled political scientists ever since Anthony Downs postulated the
paradox of voting. Despite decades of research aiming to understand what drives citizens to …

The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and
concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization. In a …

Following the 2016 US presidential election, many have expressed concern about the
effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the …

An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age. In just the
past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile …

The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In
particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the …

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today
than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about …

Significant theories of democratic accountability hinge on how political campaigns affect
Americans' candidate choices. We argue that the best estimate of the effects of campaign …

We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation
in the number of Twitter users across counties induced by early adopters at the 2007 South …

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it
acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people …