... when comparing candidates of the same party. This suggests that a meaningful portion of citizens go beyond party cues to distinguish the ideological extremity of individual candidates for office. Comparing accuracy across citizens, we find a strong correlation between respondents’ political interest...

...Connor Halloran Phillips; James M. Snyder, Jr.; Andrew B. Hall Why have the people running for Congress become more ideologically extreme over time, causing Congress to polarize? In this paper, we study how the pool of state legislators shapes the ideological distribution of congressional...