Elites

This article asks whether explicitly racial, inflammatory elite rhetoric makes prejudiced citizens more likely to express or act on their biases. Using a survey experiment tied to the 2016 Trump campaign embedded in an online panel, the authors report that prejudiced respondents typically restrained expression absent elite cues, but exposure to such elite speech—particularly when other elites tacitly condoned it—emboldened greater expression and reported willingness to act on prejudice.

This article presents two complementary datasets mapping the Italian political class: a census-style dataset of individual-level characteristics for more than 20,000 elected representatives across levels of government, and a large survey of sitting politicians’ attitudes collected between September 2020 and January 2021. The combined resource aims to support research on democratic representation by documenting who holds office in Italy and how those officeholders view elections, participation, public opinion and policy issues.

This article introduces the Comparative Legislators Database (CLD). Researchers often face scattered and inaccessible resources when studying political representatives. The CLD addresses this gap by combining data from open-collaboration platforms with renowned political science datasets.

This article examines the disconnect between voter attitudes and elite perceptions regarding violence as an electoral tactic.

British politics saw significant ideological and partisan shifts between 1983 and 2016. New research examines polarization theories through repeated cross-section and panel data analyses, testing three prominent accounts.

Understanding who rules the world requires insight into the composition of its political leadership class.

New research reveals a counterintuitive relationship between state stability and economic development in Europe.

Words Speak Louder Than Actions: This study investigates public responsiveness to elite communication by analyzing survey data from 15 countries.