Informal discussion plays a crucial role in democracy, yet much of its value depends on
diversity. We describe two models of political discussion. The purposive model holds that …

Concerns about the low public trust in US media institutions have recently deepened amid
increasing partisan polarization, large-scale digital disinformation campaigns, and frequent …

Summer 2020 saw widespread protests under the banner Black Lives Matter. Coupled with
the global pandemic that kept America's children in the predominant care of their parents …

This work explores the influence of social connections on young people's political
knowledge. Extending previous research on individual and interpersonal predictors of …

Scholars interested in understanding if and to what extent social environments influence
individual political behavior are plagued by the reality that individuals construct their social …

This thesis advances a relational approach to study the durability of sociocultural
polarization between citizens with and without tertiary education in Western democracies …

This study examines the effects of social embeddedness on interest in politics and electoral
behaviour using data from a nationally representative survey conducted shortly after the …

Does interpersonal political communication improve the quality of individual decision
making? While deliberative theorists offer reasons for hope, experimental researchers have …

Dialogues among politicians provide a window into political landscapes and relations
among parties and nations. Existing research has focused on the outcomes of such …

The Federalist remains the best single account of how American democracy is supposed to
work. That said, it remains incomplete. While generations of scholars from Alexis de …