Delia S. Baldassarri

Baldassarri will write a book that accounts for trends in American public opinion over the last forty years and relates changes in political preferences to the social identities and networks in which individuals are embedded. She will explain how people deal with conflicting political views and polarized social networks, as well as assess whether the increased partisanship has moved the United States further away from the ideal of political pluralism and favored the systematic under-representation of certain groups.