Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	350
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	52
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	47
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	40
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	36
Forecasting elections with October surprises	34
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	30
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	29
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	27
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	27
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	26
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	26
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	23
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	23
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	22
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	22
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	21
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	20
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Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	19
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	19
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	19
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	18
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	18
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	18

Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	18
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	17
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	16
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Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	15
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	14
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	14
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	14
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	13
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	13
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	13
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	12
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	12
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	11
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	11
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	10
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	10
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	10
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	10
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	9
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	9
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The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	9
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	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
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	8
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	8
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	8
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	8
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	8
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	8
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	8
Free public transit and voter turnout	8
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	7
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	7
Does disability affect support for political parties?	7
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	7
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	7
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	7
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The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	7
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	7
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	6
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	6
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	6
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	6
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A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	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
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	6
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Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	6
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	5
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	5
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	5
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	5
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	5
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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
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	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
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	5
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	5
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	5
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	5
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	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
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	5
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	4
“And some, I assume, are good people”: Determinants of elites’ strategic discourse about immigrants and refugees	4
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	4
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	4
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	4
Do politicians’ answers to voting advice applications reflect their sincere beliefs? Comparing publicly and confidentially stated ideological positions in a candidate-centred electoral context	4
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	4
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	4
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	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
Identity after the ballot: How winning and losing impact partisan attachments and affective polarization	4
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	4
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	4
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	4
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	4
Dynamic party system fragmentation	4
The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	4
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	4
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	4
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	4
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	4
Does prepaid postage increase voter turnout? An analysis across time and municipalities in Switzerland	4
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	4
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	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
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	4
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	3
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	3
Ideological identity, issue-based ideology and bipolar affective polarization in multiparty systems: The cases of Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and Spain	3
Turning up and down the partisan heat. Voters’ psychological profile and changes in negative radical partisanship over the course of an election	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
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	3
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	3
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	3
Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	3
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Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	3
Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments	3
How does rurality affect campaigning?	3
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	3
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	3
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	3
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	3
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	3

Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands	3
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe	3
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	3
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	3
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	3
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	3
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	3
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The urban-rural cleavage: Analysing more than 40 years of Norwegian survey data	3
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	3
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	2
A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	2
Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	2
The effects of uncontested elections on legislative speechmaking: An analysis of legislative performance in Japan's prefectural assemblies	2
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	2
A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions	2
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	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
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	2
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
The Swedish historical municipal council database	2
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	2
The effect of socioeconomic policy and competence messages on populist radical right support: Evidence from a pre-election survey experiment	2
How to estimate the policy preferences of party supporters: Disaggregating data from voting advice applications versus modeling survey responses	2
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	2
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation	2
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	2
Hidden in plain sight? Irregularities on statutory forms and electoral fraud	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
In-person or convenience voting? The role of the direct costs in explaining preferences for voting modalities	2
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	2
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	2
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	2
Armed and dangerous: Legacies of incumbent-military ties and electoral violence in Africa	2
An experimental investigation of voter myopia in economic evaluations	2
The (non)-religious voter in Canadian elections	2
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	2
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	2
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	2
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	2
Voting propensity and parental depression	2
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	2
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	1
Do working-class candidates activate class-based voting?	1
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	1
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Communicating safety precautions can help maintain in-person voter turnout during a pandemic	1
The partisan costs of automatic voter registration	1
Voter support for illiberal candidates: Demonstrating the differential influence of authoritarianism's three facets on vote choice	1
The empowerment effect of visible political representation: Examining the impact of Muslim representation on political outcomes	1
Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote?	1
A cognitive model of depression and political attitudes	1
Revisiting the Lavender Vote	1
Not-so-strategic voters	1
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	1
How does information affect vote choice in open-list PR systems? Evidence from a survey experiment mimicking real-world elections in Switzerland	1
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	1
What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	1
In the right place, at the right time: Opportunity structures and candidates’ chances of getting elected for the first time	1
From opinions to policies: Examining the links between citizens, representatives, and policy change	1
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The conditional effect of personal vote-seeking behaviors on MPs electoral performance: Evidence from an open-list PR system	1
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	1
The Global Dataset on Turnout (GD-Turnout)	1
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	1
Elite polarization — The boon and bane of democracy: Evidence from thirty democracies	1
Magnitude matters: Voter turnout under different electoral systems	1
Ideological proximity, issue importance, and vote choice	1
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	1
Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right	1
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems	1
Corrigendum to ‘Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit’ era’ [Electoral Studies 90c (2024) /102821]	1
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	1
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	1
Do local leaders prioritize the poor: Identifying the distributive preferences of village politicians in India	1
Female representation and electoral clientelism: New insights from South African municipal electionss	1
Closing the gap? The populist radical right and opinion congruence between citizens and MPs	1
The partisan heuristic and the voters’ knowledge: The essential role of the information environment	1
Divided we abstain: Testing the effect of local income inequality on individual-level turnout using Norwegian administrative panel data	1
Individual Electoral Competitiveness: Undecided voters, complex choice environments and lower turnout	1
With a little help from the crowd: Estimating election fraud with forensic methods	1
Electoral systems and assembly size	1
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	1
Wrong place or wrong party? LGBTQ2S+ candidates and district competitiveness	1
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	1
Who are the internet voters? An age, period and cohort analysis of e-voting use	1
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