Adam J. Berinsky

Adam J. Berinsky is a professor of political science at MIT. He is primarily concerned with questions of representation and the communication of public sentiment to political elites, but he has also studied public opinion and foreign policy, the continuing power of group-based stereotypes, the effect of voting reforms and the power of the media. He is the author of In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq and Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America. While at the Shorenstein Center, Berinsky explored the relationship between media choice and political polarization.