Professor Einstein’s Work on Information Featured in the Washington Post
Recently, professor Katie Einstein’s work (with Jennifer Hochschild) was featured on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. The Monkey Cage is a top source for policy relevant and newsworthy political science research and perspectives. Their post derives from their work on political information and is titled “No, we’re not arguing from the same facts. How can democracies make good decisions if citizens are misinformed?” They argue that “Widely shared misinformation hampers democracy because it makes it difficult for groups of people to take effective and appropriate action on shared civic problems.” More elaborate versions of their argument are in their recent book and a related article in the British Journal of Political Science.