“…Further, political sophistication has recently found remarkable success in the field of political communication and public opinion, where it has been studied in relation to resistance to fake news (Weitz-Shapiro and Winters, 2017; Vegetti and Mancosu, 2020), exposure to news and social cues (Danckert et al, 2017; Kim, 2019), and the type of language used on social media (Sterling and Jost, 2018). In addition, recent research has focused on the relationship between political sophistication and democratic functioning, exploring its effects on partisan bias (Patkós and Szántó, 2021), representation gap (Boonen et al, 2017; Dalton, 2021), and political intolerance (Gibson et al, 2020). These recent research developments in the literature concerning political sophistication have two main features.…”