Ideological asymmetries of trust in elections and non-voting political participation

A comprehensive study published in the peer-reviewed journal Party Politics has revealed a significant divergence in how liberal and conservative voters respond to doubts regarding election integrity. The research, conducted…

Self-serving biases shape the relationship between future thinking and remembering of elections.

The democratic process is fundamentally an exercise in collective decision-making, yet the way individual voters perceive this process is deeply colored by the internal mechanisms of the human mind. A…

Systematic partisan content skews in TikTok during the 2024 US elections

A comprehensive new study published in the journal Nature has revealed that TikTok’s powerful recommendation algorithm exhibits a systematic bias in the delivery of political content, tending to favor conservative…

Elites moved toward democrats more than nonelites moved away: Income, education, and occupational class in US presidential elections, 1980–2020

The prevailing narrative of twenty-first-century American politics has long centered on the "hollowing out" of the Democratic Party’s traditional base: the white working class. Since the 2016 election of Donald…