Left-wing parties that embrace progressive positions on both economic and social issues strengthen women's tendency to vote left compared to men. 👩‍🗳️🏛️📊

Political debates heat up when people feel their core moral values—equality, normality, freedom, or boundaries—are violated in discussion. 🔥💬⚖️

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Experts widely agree that East Asian cultures are more collectivistic than Western cultures. Yet 76 survey studies found no reliable difference. Our explanation is that the most-used surveys are conta...

Research on lay perceptions of inequality has typically examined economic, gender, and racial inequalities separately and treated social positions additively. Using migrants as an illustrative case, t...

This paper provides the first comprehensive global evidence on people’s fairness and efficiency preferences, beliefs about the sources of inequality and the efficiency cost of redistribution, and poli...

Does affective polarization change how citizens view and participate in democracy? We posit that the answer to this crucial question depends on how affectively un polarized citizens view and participa...

Providing voters with candidate information and requiring preference voting both increase support for female candidates in systems where voters choose individuals within parties. 📋👩‍🗳️📈

Citizens prioritize expert input over democratic procedures during crises, showing fragile commitment to core democratic rights and processes. 🗳️⚠️🌍

The concept of "stranded assets" originated in 1980s utility deregulation debates as justification for compensating investors harmed by policy changes—a precedent now problematically mirrored in fossil fuel compensation claims. ⚡📜🌍

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Mainstream parties shift toward Euroscepticism when radical-right parties gain support and secure parliamentary seats, regardless of whether gains are actual or predicted. 🗳️ 🇪🇺 📊

Cheaper travel to Washington D.C. enabled the federal government to expand and replace personal connections with formal bureaucracy throughout the nineteenth century. 🚂🏛️📊

Citizens like political parties less when they perceive them as ideologically inconsistent, independent of policy disagreement. 🗳️ 🤔 📉

Most educational inequality stems from genetics before school starts, but new genetic differences in learning speed create additional inequality during primary education despite some compensation. 📚🧬📊

Experiencing workplace injustice—unfair pay, promotion practices, and management—erodes people's belief in meritocracy and strengthens support for government intervention on inequality. 💼⚖️🗳️

Migrants who move as adults accept more inequality and support need-based redistribution less than non-migrants, while childhood migrants hold similar views. 🌍✊📊

Strong belief in democratic institutions helps voters resist supporting antidemocratic candidates, even when their political preferences conflict. 🗳️🛡️📊

Western European party systems are fragmenting more dramatically than previously recognized, with voters increasingly supporting different parties in regional versus national elections. 🗳️🗺️🔄

Is Twitter *really* dead? Yesterday, Altmetric claimed the academic flight from Twitter is now complete and permanent. In April 2023, right after the pandemic research surge, they recorded 2,234,307...

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