American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Contemporary democracies are undergoing a period of rising levels of polarization and fragmentation. At the same time, the degree of conflict in several parliaments, particularly in Europe, has significant…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This special issue examines young adults’ beliefs, identities, and political priorities during a tumultuous political era. Each article uses different subsamples of the qualitative and quantitative data co…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. A core function of higher education is to prepare students to be active and informed citizens who are prepared to make sustained contributions to civic life and democratic society. However, past research o…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The ethnoracial composition of the United States has been changing rapidly in recent decades, a trend expected to persist into the foreseeable future. While quantitative studies have investigated individua…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. This article presents evidence that political representatives in Spain exhibit significant levels of affective polarization, drawing on data from a 2022 to 2023 survey of Spanish Members of Parliament (MPs…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. Norms and ideals of romantic relationships, from dating through to marriage, have undergone significant shifts in recent decades. Views of roles and expectations within relationships may have evolved towar…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The American Dream has long been crucial in maintaining the narrative of meritocracy that is part of American ideology and in giving immigrants hope for a brighter future in the United States. This article…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The Principalities of Andorra and Monaco acceded to the Council of Europe with significantly different motivations of origin. The Principality of Andorra managed to approve a constitution and join the Coun…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. The emergence of the Tea Party in 2009 was a pivotal moment in American politics signaling a right-ward shift among Republican Party primary voters that would later help Donald J. Trump secure the Republic…
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print. We develop the concept of the satellite political movement (SPM), a form of movement-party interaction that emerges in support of a particular political leader. We theorize SPMs as grassroots movements tha…