▪ Abstract Recent commentary points to clear increases in ideological polarization between
the major American political parties. We review the theoretical and empirical literature on …

Data and voting in the UN General Assembly “state preferences.” Since 1998, there have
been over 50 published studies that use an indicator based on UN votes as a dependent …

Populism studies have rapidly burgeoned but systematic global empirical evidence about
this phenomenon has lagged behind. How can party values be measured in consistent …

Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political
party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of US politics? Analyzing
multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential …

Originalism is often promoted as a better way of getting constitutional answers. That claim
leads to disappointment when the answers prove hard to find. To borrow a distinction from …

The widespread adoption of social media for political communication creates
unprecedented opportunities to monitor the opinions of large numbers of politically active …

In democracies, power is obtained via competition. Yet, as women gain access to
parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise. This is …

This article uses data from the American National Election Studies and national exit polls to
test Fiorina's assertion that ideological polarization in the American public is a myth. Fiorina …

Scholars of the US House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the
legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional …