The current polarization of elites in the U.S., particularly in Congress, is frequently ascribed to the emergence of cohorts of ideologically extreme legislators replacing moderate ones. Politicians,
In this article, we challenge the conclusion that the preferences of members of Congress are best represented as existing in a low-dimensional space. We conduct Monte Carlo simulations altering assump
Replication dataset for paper accepted in the American Journal of Sociology. A growing social science literature finds that Americans tend to underestimate levels of socio-economic inequality but this
