Professor Einstein Publishes Book About Political Information, Article About City Politics
Recently, Katherine Levine Einstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science, published a book about political information. The book, co-authored with Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard), and published by the University of Oklahoma Press, is titled Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series). The authors focus on political information throughout US History in important episodes, and especially on the question of whether a lack of knowledge or incorrect knowledge is more problematic. They argue that acting on false information is much more troublesome for American democracy than is simply being uninformed. Their work contributes to important literatures in American politics concerning citizen behavior, political information, and theories of representative government.
Professor Einstein also recently had an article published (co-authored with Vladimir Kogan of The Ohio State University) in the Urban Affairs Review. The article, “Pushing the City Limits Policy Responsiveness in Municipal Government,” investigates the link between the local public’s general policy preferences and how cities spend money. The article provides good news for representative government, city spending corresponds to the public’s preferences.