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Parent rights and school board accountability were the highlights of a two-day conference in Sacramento earlier this month ...

As the threat to democratic norms and procedures mount, there has been an explosion of research aimed at lowering the political temperature.

Pedro Bordalo, Marco Tabellini, David Yang 20 January 2021 Our beliefs about one another’s political attitudes tend to be substantially mis-calibrated. This column analyses the factors shaping voters’ ideas about the political attitudes of other voters among the US electorate. Starting from the premise that individuals are not equally interested in all issues, it finds that when issue salience changes, beliefs about political groups can shift dramatically even when the underlying fu...