...Steven Rogers “Partisan Intoxication or Policy Voting?” raises questions central to understanding the extent to which individuals vote their partisanship and brings important attention to the potential observational equivalence between partisan and policy voting. In this response, I affirm some...

... and registration. We find that Medicaid increased voter turnout in the November 2008 Presidential election by about 7% overall, with the effects concentrated in men (18% increase) and in residents of Democratic counties (10% increase); there is suggestive evidence that the increase in voting reflected new voter...

...Andrew M. Engelhardt Many analyses of the 2016 presidential election suggest that Whites’ racial attitudes played a central role in explaining vote choice, and to a degree greater than preceding years. Most explanations for this outcome emphasize the role that Donald Trump’s campaign played...

... at the universities of Oregon, Princeton and Warwick, and two referees and an editor for helpful comments. I also thank Omiros Kouvavas and Federico Trombetta for excellent research assistance. © 2017 B. Lockwood 2017 B. Lockwood Licensed re-use rights only Confirmation bias selective exposure voting...

... a simple model of voting in centralized and decentralized democracies. We find that the electoral logic suggests the opposite conclusion: centralization usually leads to “too much” policy experimentation, compared to the social optimum, while decentralization leads to “too little.” Three effects...