Ph.D. student Wataru Onishi has received an APSA Centennial Center Research Grant for his innovative study on how ordinary members of Congress might help reduce partisan hostility by revealing internal diversity within their parties.

The relationship between democracy and digital technology is often cast in pessimistic terms—marked by polarization, misinformation, and online hostility. But what if the same tools that threaten democratic life could also help renew it? In a recent IGCC blog post, UCR’s own Professor Kevin Esterling, Director of the Laboratory for Technology, Communication, and Democracy (TeCD-Lab)...