The ideological nationalization of partisan subconstituencies in the American States by Caughey, Devin, Dunham, James, Warshaw, Christopher

“…In Congress, for example, within-party geographic cleavages have declined, roll-call voting has become more one-dimensional, and Democrats and Republicans have diverged along this main dimension of national partisan conflict. …”
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Mayoral Partisanship and the Size of Municipal Government by De Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Warshaw, Christopher S

“…Democratic mayors spend substantially more than Republican mayors. In order to pay for this spending, Democratic mayors issue substantially more debt than Republican mayors and pay more in interest. …”
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They Might Be a Liar But They’re My Liar: Source Evaluation and the Prevalence of Misinformation by Swire‐Thompson, Briony, Ecker, Ullrich K. H., Lewandowsky, Stephan, Berinsky, Adam J., Berinsky, Adam

“…The current study investigated whether participants reduce their support of Republican and Democratic politicians when the prevalence of misinformation disseminated by the politicians appears to be high in comparison to the prevalence of their factual statements. …”
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Policy and Performance in the New Deal Realignment: Evidence from Old Data and New Methods by Caughey, Devin, Dougal, Michael C., Schickler, Eric

“…At the individual level, presidential Republicans who became Democrats were much more supportive of New Deal policies than those who remained loyal (vice versa for Democrats). …”
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Abstention, Protest, and Residual Votes in the 2016 Election by Stewart III, Charles H, Alvarez, R. Michael, Pettigrew, Stephen S., Wimpy, Cameron

“…Results: The primary explanation for this rise is an increase in abstentions, which we argue results primarily from disaffected Republican voters rather than alienated Democratic voters. …”
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The Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives: Reflections on Nelson Polsby's “The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives” at Fifty by Jenkins, Jeffery A., Stewart III, Charles H

“…We empirically document that careerism plateaued right at the point Polsby wrote Institutionalization, and that the extension of the careerism trend has affected Democrats more than Republicans. The House remains complex, but lateral movement between the committee and party leadership systems began to reestablish itself a decade after Institutionalization was published. …”
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Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon by Lewandowsky, Stephan, Ecker, Ullrich K. H., Swire-Thompson, Briony, Berinsky, Adam

“…Experiment 1 found that (i) if information was attributed to Trump, Republican supporters of Trump believed it more than if it was presented without attribution, whereas the opposite was true for Democrats and (ii) although Trump supporters reduced their belief in misinformation items following a correction, they did not change their voting preferences. …”
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