Aaron Dusso

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    Our personality affects our ability to connect our policy preferences to the correct political party- and that’s a problem for democracy.

Our personality affects our ability to connect our policy preferences to the correct political party- and that’s a problem for democracy.

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Functioning democracies require voters to connect their own personal and subjective policy preferences to the political party that best represents them. Aaron Dusso’s new book examines how individual psychologies and people’s tendencies to be introverted or extroverted affects their ability to match their policy preference to the correct political party. He finds that the more extroverted one is, the […]

October 5th, 2017|Aaron Dusso, Democracy and culture|3 Comments|
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Mike Pence won’t be a game changer for Donald Trump

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This week, Donald Trump announced that Indiana Governor Mike Pence would be his Vice Presidential pick. Aaron Dusso takes a close look at Pence’s selection, writing that the Governor is a relatively standard Republican who has low name recognition and hails from a non-battleground state. In the end, he says, Vice Presidential picks do not matter a great deal […]

July 16th, 2016|Aaron Dusso, Elections and party politics across the US|0 Comments|
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    Partisan and economic cues fail to help low-information voters choose the correct presidential candidate

Partisan and economic cues fail to help low-information voters choose the correct presidential candidate

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When people vote, does their preferred candidate represent the policies that are best for them? Not necessarily – a lack of information can often lead to people voting ‘incorrectly’ against their interests or beliefs. Using a new method of measuring this incorrect voting in presidential elections, Aaron Dusso finds that when choosing between candidates, strong partisans and those who […]

April 23rd, 2015|Aaron Dusso, Elections and party politics across the US|0 Comments|
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