Gabriel Lenz was quoted in The Economist:
Political scientists have conducted a lot of research recently on the effect of partisanship on the human mind. As political polarisation has increased and partisan affiliations have become more entrenched, researchers have become curious about how far leaders can shape their followers’ opinions. Gabriel Lenz, of the University of California, Berkeley, went so far as to write a book called “Follow the Leader?” about this phenomenon. Mr Lenz establishes that the folk view of elections, in which citizens form opinions and then vote for politicians who carry them to Washington, is misleading. Instead, they largely do the reverse. First, they pick a party and its leader. Then they adopt the party’s preferences.
The full article is available here.