Hi and welcome to my site,. I am a PhD student of political science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. I am also a Director of Research at the Piast Institute in Detroit, Michigan and I recently started an online journal about Polish-American matters called Nihil Novi. Thank you for visiting my site. The article also provided a basis for a column in the New York Daily News.

I assume that a key characteristic of a democracy is the continuing responsiveness of the government to the preferences of its citizens, considered as political equals. Degrees of Democracy is an ongoing project conducted by Christopher Wlezien. At the University of Texas at Austin and Stuart Soroka.

I am a senior research specialist at the Center for Political Studies. At the Institute for Social Research. in Communication in 2012 from the University of Michigan and my undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Before joining the Center for Political Studies, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan. The main focus of my research is the political effects of the mass media.