This document contains a literature review and outlines three statistical models to analyze political attitudes and behavior:
1. A Bayesian model is used to analyze left-right ideological positions and proximity to political parties.
2. A second model examines sophistication, engagement, and detachment in political thinking using individual-level data.
3. A third multi-level model analyzes country-level data on political knowledge to study how system-level factors like press freedom and competitiveness influence individuals. The document concludes by discussing future research directions.