Vigilante violence, often targeting religious and sectarian minorities and preceded by
unsubstantiated rumors, has taken the lives of many citizens in India and Pakistan in recent …

Terrorism causes emotional reactions among public audiences, with downstream
consequences for their well-being, attitudes and policy preferences. We utilise a novel …

In liberal democracies, protest can serve as a trigger for necessary policy reforms, but it can
also be used by a loud minority to advance political goals against the will of the majority …

This study unpacks the 2022 Brazilian Presidential campaign marked by multiple claims of
electoral fraud and calls for a coup d'état by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro …

The way social protest affects electoral outcomes remains a lacuna. This article helps fill this
gap by examining how social protest against far right actors affects their electoral standing …

How can political elites strengthen citizen commitment to democratic norms when
democracy is under imminent assault? We report results from a pre-registered survey …

How do citizens respond to extreme violations of democratic institutions, such as the
January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol? Using an online survey of 900 employed …

Using a novel dataset of 590M messages by 21M users, we present the first large-scale
examination of the behavior of likely Bernie supporters on Twitter during the 2020 US …

Objectives To test whether news images from George Floyd protests and the Capitol
insurrection affected feelings about the police differentially depending on respondents' …

Increasing partisan polarization has characterized American politics for decades. On
January 6, 2021, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress expressed their horror at …