Adam Seth Levine is an Assistant Professor of in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research and teaching focus on questions of political communication — how the language used to describe policies, social problems, and American politics more generally affects (a) the attitudes that people hold and (b) their political engagement. My work speaks to several topics fundamental to the democratic process: how individuals form political preferences, when they spend scarce resources expressing those preferences, and why we observe some kinds of policy change and not others.