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…
The next U.S. president will inherit multiple epidemics with inequitably distributed effects. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are likely to take divergent policy approaches to…
Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party’s down-ballot candidates to low-quality or extreme top-of-the-ticket…
We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other US trade partners at the detailed geographic level,…
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis is our increasing human interdependence. That interdependence creates increasing needs for ‘free-use goods’: goods that, once…
Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering, but they all require either bipartisan consensus or the agreement of both parties…
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…
We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other U.S. trade partners at the detailed geographic level,…
