The responsiveness of government policies to citizens' preferences is a central concern of
various normative and empirical theories of democracy. Examining public opinion and policy …

Democratic theory must pay attention to what influences public opinion. In this study the
content of network television news is shown to account for a high proportion of aggregate …

Less than half of all eligible Americans bothered to vote in the presidential election last year,
a fact that deepens the gloom of those who have been worrying for decades about the low …

… Page and Robert Y. Shapiro provide the richest available portrait of the political views of …
While documenting some alarming case of manipulation, Page and Shapiro solidly establish …

Francis Crick uncovered the structure of DNA, Crick “winged into the Eagle (pub) to tell
everyone within hearing that we had discovered the secret of life.” Their structure—an elegant …

The discovery of catalytic ability in RNA has given fresh impetus to speculations that RNA
played a critical role in the origin of life. This question must rest on the plausibility of prebiotic …

Public opinion polls are everywhere. Journalists report their results without hesitation, and
political activists of all kinds spend millions of dollars on them, fueling the widespread …

Using 267 repeated policy questions (962 time points), we examine gender differences in
policy choices and how they have changed from the 1960s to the 1980s. The average gender …

Familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS) is a human behavioural phenotype
characterized by early sleep times and early-morning awakening 1 . It was the first human, …

The American electorate today is different from that described in The American Voter. Both
the 1950s era of ideologically innocent party voting and the subsequent period of partisan …