An enduring concern about democracies is that citizens conform too readily to the policy
views of elites in their own parties, even to the point of ignoring other information about the …

A key characteristic of democratic politics is competition between groups, first of all political
parties. Yet, the unavoidably partisan nature of political conflict has had too little influence on …

The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates
parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has become politicized. And decision …

The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept
in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party …

Despite generations of research, political scientists have trouble pinpointing the influence of
political parties on public opinion. Recently, scholars have made headway in exploring …

Political parties not only aggregate the policy preferences of their supporters, but also have
the ability to shape those preferences. Experimental evidence demonstrates that, when …

Decades after wind energy has taken hold in many developed countries, social scientists
are beginning to understand the complex story of what causes differentiated responses to …

In the United States, considerable evidence documents the power of partisanship to shape
voter preferences. But does partisanship have similar powers beyond American shores …

The emergence of new challenger parties calls for a reassessment of the party-model of
opinion formation by examining different sources of cues across types of voters and the …

In this study, we evaluate how voter polarization and the level of partisanship influence
electoral outcomes. We show that when the level of partisanship is low, the polarization of …