Month: February 2017
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Bright Line Watch expert survey on U.S. democracy
The Bright Line Watch initiative that I am co-organizing with John Carey (Dartmouth), Gretchen Helmke (Rochester), and Susan Stokes (Yale) has released its first expert survey results on the state of American democracy: Despite an atmosphere of pessimism or panic among many observers and public intellectuals, the political science community holds a rather nuanced view
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New NYT: Why Dems are embracing conspiracy theories
From my new Upshot column: Even as Democrats decry the false claims streaming regularly from the White House, they appear to have become more vulnerable to unsupported claims and conspiracy theories that flatter their own political prejudices. The reason isn’t just that a Republican now occupies the White House. Political psychology research suggests that losing
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New NYT: The Obamacare/ACA confusion
From my new Upshot column (co-authored with Kyle Dropp): A sizable minority of Americans don’t understand that Obamacare is just another name for the Affordable Care Act. These findings, from a poll by Morning Consult, illustrate the extent of public confusion over a health law that President Trump and Republicans in Congress hope to repeal.