While previously polarization was primarily seen only in issue-based terms, a new type of
division has emerged in the mass public in recent years: Ordinary Americans increasingly …

Research on negative campaigning has grown rapidly in the past decades. This article
reviews the literature dealing with this campaign strategy. It discusses its definition and …

What accounts for the prevalence of negative news content? One answer may lie in the
tendency for humans to react more strongly to negative than positive information.“Negativity …

Partisanship continues to divide Americans. Using data from the American National Election
Studies (ANES), we find that partisans not only feel more negatively about the opposing …

Behavioral public administration is the analysis of public administration from the micro‐level
perspective of individual behavior and attitudes by drawing on insights from psychology on …

The Bitter End Page 1 Page 2 The BITTER END Page 3 Page 4 THE BITTER END The 2020
Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy John Sides, Chris …

News avoidance is considered an increasing problem for the news industry and democracy
at large. As news companies lose consumers, democracy loses the informed foundation for …

The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the
last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome …

Partisans often perceive real world conditions in a manner that credits their own party. Yet
recent findings suggest that partisans are capable of setting their loyalties aside when …

With its relatively high immigration levels and comparatively favorable public opinion,
Canada is often seen as a bastion of support for immigrants and refugees. We argue that …