Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology

Richard Hanania's research center producing heterodox scholarship on political psychology, partisanship, and ideology — outside the mainstream of academic political science.

CSPI occupies the heterodox think-tank space: producing research that challenges both left and right academic orthodoxies on topics like affirmative action, partisan asymmetry, and elite psychology. Hanania's specific contribution: empirical work on why the left systematically wins institutional battles regardless of electoral outcomes, arguing that higher political engagement and institutional concentration on the left explain the asymmetry. The center gives institutional form to a specific mode of heterodox political analysis.