We conducted a field experiment to measure the effect of exposure to newspapers on
political behavior and opinion. Before the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election, we randomly …

There are few reliable estimates of the effect of grassroots lobbying on legislative behavior.
The analysis in this article circumvents methodological problems that plague existing studies …

A content analysis of 48 citizen journalism sites, 86 weekly newspapers and 138 daily
newspapers indicates that citizen journalism sites differed enough in six local government content …

Although interest in the efficacy of efforts to correct false beliefs has peaked in recent years,
the extent to which corrective effects endure over time remains understudied. Drawing on …

Do campaigns encouraging constituents to contact their legislator influence public policy?
We answer this question with a field experiment in which Michigan state legislators are …

… Bergan daniel bergan and costas panagopoulos are post doctoral fellows at the Institution
for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. alan gerber is professor of political science …

For decades, scholars have argued that education causes greater support for civil liberties
by increasing students’ exposure to political knowledge and constitutional norms, such as …

Research on misinformation and misperceptions often investigates claims that have already
reached a critical mass, resulting in little understanding of why certain claims gain …

While research consistently shows that fact-checking improves belief accuracy, debates
persist about how to best measure and interpret expressions of factual beliefs. We argue that …

Young voters, including college students, turnout less than older citizens—particularly in non-presidential
elections. We examine two promising intervention strategies in the 2018 …