Both academic researchers and political pundits have warned about the cumulative effects of partisan media over time. This concern hinges on the idea that repeated exposure to…
An enormous body of literature argues that recommendation algorithms drive political polarization by creating "filter bubbles" and "rabbit holes." Using four experiments with…
Money in politics is the subject of great debate at every level of government, yet it has principally been studied at the federal level in the US. Where scholars have analyzed…
How do media portrayals of potential policy beneficiaries’ identities sway public support for these policies in a public health setting? Using a pre-registered vignette experiment…
In recent years, a consensus has developed among scholars that the timing of elections has large effects on the electoral and political process at the local level. This literature…
Do biases in representation arise at the most basic levels of policy implementation, and can political participation contribute to these inequities? Leveraging a panel of…
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new database of about 78,000…
To what extent do partisan media influence political attitudes and behavior? Although recent methodological advancements have improved scholars’ ability to identify the…
An enormous body of academic and journalistic work argues that opaque recommendation algorithms contribute to political polarization by promoting increasingly extreme content. We…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative data on 6.7 million registered voters to…
