Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	323
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	48
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	43
Editorial Board	34
Forecasting elections with October surprises	31
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	29
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	27
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	26
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	25
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	24
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	24
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	22
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	21
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	21
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	21
Editorial Board	20
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	20
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	19
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	19
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	18
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	18
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	17
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	16
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	16
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	16

The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	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
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	14
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	14
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	14
Editorial Board	13
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	13
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	13
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	11
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	11
Editorial Board	11
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	11
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	11
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	11
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	10
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	10
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	10
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	10
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	10
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	10
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	10
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	9
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	9
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	9
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	9
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	8
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	8
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	8
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	8
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	7
Editorial Board	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
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	7
Free public transit and voter turnout	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
Does disability affect support for political parties?	7
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	7
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	7
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	7
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	7
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	7
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	7
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign	7
Editorial Board	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
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6

The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	6
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	6
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	6
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	6
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	6
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	6
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	5
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	5
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	5
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 use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	5
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	5
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	5
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	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
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	5
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	5
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	5
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	5
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	5
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	5
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	5
Corrigendum for “Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors” [Elect. Stud., 78 (2022), 102491]	4
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	4
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	4
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	4
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	4
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	4
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	4
Does prepaid postage increase voter turnout? An analysis across time and municipalities in Switzerland	4
Polarization, candidate positioning, and political participation in the U.S.	4
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	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
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	4
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	4
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	4
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	4
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	4
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	4
“And some, I assume, are good people”: Determinants of elites’ strategic discourse about immigrants and refugees	4
Editorial Board	4
Dynamic party system fragmentation	4
Editorial Board	4
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	4
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	4
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	4
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	4
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	4
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	4
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	4
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	4
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	3
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	3
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	3
Editorial Board	3
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	3
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	3
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	3
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	3
The urban-rural cleavage: Analysing more than 40 years of Norwegian survey data	3
Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments	3
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	3
In-person or convenience voting? The role of the direct costs in explaining preferences for voting modalities	3
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	3
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	3
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3

Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	3
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	3
Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	3
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	3
Turning up and down the partisan heat. Voters’ psychological profile and changes in negative radical partisanship over the course of an election	3
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	3
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	3
How does rurality affect campaigning?	3
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe	3
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	3
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands	3
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	3
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	3
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	3
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	3
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	3
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	3
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	3
Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	3
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	3
Ideological identity, issue-based ideology and bipolar affective polarization in multiparty systems: The cases of Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and Spain	3
The (non)-religious voter in Canadian elections	3
Armed and dangerous: Legacies of incumbent-military ties and electoral violence in Africa	2
Editorial Board	2
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	2
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	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
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	2
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation	2
Voting propensity and parental depression	2
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	2
A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)	2
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	2
The effect of socioeconomic policy and competence messages on populist radical right support: Evidence from a pre-election survey experiment	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	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
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	2
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	2
A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions	2
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	2
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	2
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	2
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	2
An experimental investigation of voter myopia in economic evaluations	2
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	2
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	2
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	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
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Hidden in plain sight? Irregularities on statutory forms and electoral fraud	2
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	2
The effects of local campaigning in Great Britain	2
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	2
The effects of uncontested elections on legislative speechmaking: An analysis of legislative performance in Japan's prefectural assemblies	2
War, democratization, and generational cohort effects on participation in Japan	2
The Swedish historical municipal council database	2