Democracy requires collective action—but not all forms of collective action are the same.
Scholars need a more coherent intellectual infrastructure to differentiate distinct forms of …

The rapid rise of digital media use for political participation has coincided with an increase in
concerns about citizens' sense of their capacity to impact political processes. These dual …

What role do business leaders play in American democracy? The dominant narrative in
political science holds that business leaders have disproportionate influence; this influence …

The convergence of sports and celebrity can have a powerful influence on everyday politics,
especially for groups underrepresented in mainstream American society. This article …

The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly
few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for this decrease. We …

Are the preferences of women and men unequally represented in public policies? This
simple yet fundamental question has remained largely unexplored in the fast-growing fields …

Legislative solutions to pressing problems like balancing the budget, climate change, and
poverty usually require compromise. Yet national, state, and local legislators often reject …

While concerns about the public's receptivity to factual information are widespread, much
less attention has been paid to the factual receptivity, or lack thereof, of elected officials …

This study advances research on the role of protest in individual-level participation
repertoires by examining how latent class analysis can be used to identify distinctive types of …

It has long been recognized that economic inequality may undermine the principle of equal
responsiveness that lies at the core of democratic governance. A recent wave of scholarship …