Published Quarterly Journal of Economics Online 1 Apr 2026 Published Jul 2026"Compensate the Losers?" Economic Policy and the Origins of U.S. Partisan RealignmentIlyana Kuziemko · Nicolas Longuet-Marx · Suresh NaiduWhy have less-educated voters in the United States abandoned the Democratic Party over recent decades? The paper argues that the Democratic Party's evolution on economic policy — specifically its …