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Politics & Elections

Politics & Elections

What do voters today care about? What motivates voters to shift parties or change their views? What is the impact of increasingly hostile political rhetoric? Annenberg faculty and students aim to understand the forces shaping civics and government, politics and elections, policy and law. They study how these things change over time, how they impact society, and how to explain them to the rest of us.

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News

A New Study Uncovers How Information Spread on Facebook in the Lead up to and After the 2020 Election

Professor Sandra González-Bailón and colleagues analyzed the spread of over one billion Facebook posts to reveal how information flowed on the social network.

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Research

29 Oct 2024

Penn Students Get Convention Access in Extraordinary Political Times

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Research

8 Oct 2024

Trust in U.S. Supreme Court Continues to Sink

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Research

25 Sep 2024

A New Study Shows That Political Polarization Between Americans Stays Consistent Before and After Elections

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Research

17 Sep 2024

A Majority of Americans Can’t Recall Most First Amendment Rights

Faculty

Murali Balaji, Ph.D.

Community, Inclusion, and Culture Advisor

Eran Ben-Porath, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Dwayne Booth

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.

Oscar H. Gandy Emeritus Professor of Communication & Democracy

David Eisenhower, J.D.

Director, Institute for Public Service

Maya Enisman, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center and Social Action Lab

Emily Falk, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication, Psychology, Marketing, and OID (Operations, Informatics, and Decisions)

Bita Fayaz-Farkhad, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Social Action Lab

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Communication

Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.

Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication

R. Lance Holbert, Ph.D.

Director of Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics (LAIC), Annenberg Public Policy Center

Daniel J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Albert R. Hunt

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Aaron Hyzen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality & Change Center

Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Malav Kanuga, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality and Change Center

Alon P. Kraitzman, Ph.D.

Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Yphtach Lelkes, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Matthew Levendusky, Ph.D.

Penny and Robert A. Fox Director of the Fels Institute of Government, School of Arts & Sciences

Marjorie Margolies

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D.

Frances Yates Professor Emeritus of Communication

Danaë Metaxa, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D.

Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication

Victor Pickard, Ph.D.

C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy

Vincent Price, Ph.D.

Provost Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Scott Reich, J.D.

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Diego A. Reinero, Ph.D.

MindCORE Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Craig Snyder

Lecturer

Philip Tetlock, Ph.D.

Leonore Annenberg University Professor of Psychology and Management, Wharton School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences

Hendrik Theine, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar, Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC)

Erin Walk, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Polarization Research Lab

Ken Winneg, Ph.D.

Managing Director of Survey Research, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Guobin Yang, Ph.D.

Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology

Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D.

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, School of Arts and Sciences

Graduate Students

Chloe (Jae-Kyung) Ahn

Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science

Nicholas Dias

Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science

Tom W. Etienne

Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science

Emilie Grybos

Doctoral Student

Gayoung Jeon

Doctoral Student

Tyler Leigh

Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science

Kirsten O. Lydic

Doctoral Student

Lizzie Martin

Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science

Adetobi Moses

Doctoral Student

Farrah Rahaman

Doctoral Candidate

Shane Sheehy

Doctoral Candidate

Alex Tolkin

Joint Doctoral Candidate in Communication and Political Science

Natasha Williams

Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science

Sam Wolken

Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science