A curated collection of readings that have informed the research, writing and thinking of the Program on Democracy and the Internet.
- Allcott, H. & Gentzkow, M. (2017) “Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election.” Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Boxell, L. & Gentzkow, M. & Shapiro, J. (2017) “Greater Internet use is not associated with faster growth in political polarization among US demographic groups.” National Academy of Sciences
- Dandekar, P. & Goel, A. & Lee D. (2013) “Biased assimilation, homophily, and the dynamics of polarization.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Diamond, L. & Plattner, M. (2012) “Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy.” The John Hopkins University Press
- Fukuyama, Francis (2014) “Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Flaxman, S. & Goel, S. & Rao, J. (2016) “Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption.” Public Opinion Quarterly
- Gentzkow, M. & Shapiro, J. (2011) “Ideological Segregation Online and Offline.” Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Gentzkow, M. & Shapiro, J. (2013) “Ideology and Online News.” Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy
- Gentzkow, M. & Shapiro, J. & Taddy, M. (2017) “Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech. Working paper
- Goel, S. & Mason, W. & Watts, D. (2010) “Real and Perceived Attitude Agreement in Social Networks.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Iyengar, S. & Krupenkin, M. (2018) “The Strengthening of Partisan Affect.” Advances in Political Psychology
- Lelkes, Y. & Sood, G. & Iyengar, S. (2015) “The Hostile Audience: The Effects of Access to Broadband Internet on Partisan Affect.” American Journal of Political Science
- Pan, Jennifer (2017) “How Market Dynamics of Domestic and Foreign Social Media Firms Shape Strategies of Internet Censorship.“Problems of Post-Communism
- Peterson, E. & Goel, S. & Iyengar, S. (2017) “Echo Chamber and Partisan Polarization: Evidence from the 2016 Presidential Campaign.” Working Paper
- Plattner, M. & Walker, C. & Diamond, L. (2016) “Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy.” The John Hopkins University Press
More research from affiliated faculty can be found below:
- Nate Persily, Stanford Law School
- Francis Fukuyama, Freeman Spogli Institute
- Rob Reich, Stanford Department of Political Science
- Larry Diamond, Freeman Spogli Institute
- Shanto Iyengar, Stanford Political Communication Lab
- Matt Gentzkow, Stanford Department of Economics
- Jeff Hancock, Stanford Department of Communication
- Sharad Goel, Stanford Department of Management Science and Engineering
- Ashish Goel, Stanford Department of Management Science and Engineering
- Jennifer Pan, Stanford Department of Communication