Neil Malhotra is the Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he directs the Center for Social Innovation. His research has spanned numerous topics, including political polarization, elections, metascience and publication bias, survey methodology, and the relationships between business, government, and society. He has published over 90 academic articles in leading political science journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, in addition to major general science journals such as Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Malhotra’s project, “Does Social Media Increase Political Polarization?,” will be analyzing the effect of social media on political polarization. He will be synthesizing data from a large-scale industry-academic collaboration with Meta, including randomized controlled trials assessing the impact of changing features of Facebook and Instagram.
May 2024
