Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	307
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	60
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	54
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	45
Editorial Board	43
Forecasting elections with October surprises	40
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	38
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	32
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	30
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	28
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	25
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	24
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	24
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	24
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	22
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	21
Editorial Board	20
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	20
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	20
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	20
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	20
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	19
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	19
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	18
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	18

Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	17
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	17
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	15
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	15
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	15
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	15
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	14
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	14
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	14
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	13
Editorial Board	13
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	13
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	13
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	13
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	12
Editorial Board	12
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	12
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	12
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	11
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems	11
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	10
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	10
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	10
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	10
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	10
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	10
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	9
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	9
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	9
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	9
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	9
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	9
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	9
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	9
Free public transit and voter turnout	9
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	8
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	8
Editorial Board	8
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	8
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	7
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	7
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	7
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	7
Editorial Board	7
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	7
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	7
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
Does disability affect support for political parties?	7

The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	7
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	7
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	7
Editorial Board	7
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	6
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	6
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	6
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	6
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	6
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	6
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	6
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	6
Editorial Board	6
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	6
Editorial Board	6
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	6
Do politicians’ answers to voting advice applications reflect their sincere beliefs? Comparing publicly and confidentially stated ideological positions in a candidate-centred electoral context	5
The electoral consequences of anti-Muslim prejudice	5
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	5
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	5
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	5
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	5
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	5
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	5
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	5
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	5
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	5
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	5
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	5
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	5
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	5
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	5
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	5
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	5
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	4
The comparative effectiveness of populist rhetoric in generating online engagement	4
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	4
Editorial Board	4
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	4
The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	4
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	4
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	4
Does prepaid postage increase voter turnout? An analysis across time and municipalities in Switzerland	4
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	4
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	4
“And some, I assume, are good people”: Determinants of elites’ strategic discourse about immigrants and refugees	4
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	4
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	4
Dynamic party system fragmentation	4
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	4
Editorial Board	4
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	4
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	4
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	4
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	4
Polarization, candidate positioning, and political participation in the U.S.	4
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	4
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	4
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	4
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	4
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	4
Corrigendum for “Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors” [Elect. Stud., 78 (2022), 102491]	4
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	4
Transaction costs in electoral coordination: How turnout shapes changes in the number of parties*	4
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	4
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	4
How does rurality affect campaigning?	3
An experimental investigation of voter myopia in economic evaluations	3
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	3
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	3

The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	3
The urban-rural cleavage: Analysing more than 40 years of Norwegian survey data	3
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	3
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	3
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	3
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	3
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	3
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	3
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands	3
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	3
The (non)-religious voter in Canadian elections	3
Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	3
Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	3
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	3
Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	3
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	3
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	3
Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments	3
Editorial Board	3
In-person or convenience voting? The role of the direct costs in explaining preferences for voting modalities	3
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	3
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	3
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe	3
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	3
Ideological identity, issue-based ideology and bipolar affective polarization in multiparty systems: The cases of Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and Spain	3
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	3
Turning up and down the partisan heat. Voters’ psychological profile and changes in negative radical partisanship over the course of an election	3
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	3
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	3
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	3
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote	2
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	2
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	2
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	2
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	2
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
The effects of local campaigning in Great Britain	2
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	2
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	2
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	2
Ticking all the boxes? A comparative study of social sorting and affective polarization	2
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	2
Voting propensity and parental depression	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	2
Oppression of Catholics in Prussia does not explain spatial differences in support for the radical right in Germany. A critique of Haffert (2022)	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	2
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	2
All-mail voting in Colorado increases turnout and reduces turnout inequality	2
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	2
War, democratization, and generational cohort effects on participation in Japan	2
The effect of socioeconomic policy and competence messages on populist radical right support: Evidence from a pre-election survey experiment	2
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	2
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	2
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	2
Editorial Board	2
A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions	2
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	2
Armed and dangerous: Legacies of incumbent-military ties and electoral violence in Africa	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation	2
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	2
A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)	2
Mobilizing party activism: A field experiment with party members and sympathizers	2
The 2020 presidential election and beliefs about fraud: Continuity or change?	2
The Swedish historical municipal council database	2
The effects of uncontested elections on legislative speechmaking: An analysis of legislative performance in Japan's prefectural assemblies	2
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	2
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	2
Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote?	2
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
How to estimate the policy preferences of party supporters: Disaggregating data from voting advice applications versus modeling survey responses	2
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	2
Hidden in plain sight? Irregularities on statutory forms and electoral fraud	2
What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2