Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	289
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	90
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	54
Editorial Board	53
Forecasting elections with October surprises	42
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	40
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	36
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	36
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	32
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	30
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	29
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	27
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	25
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	23
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	23
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	22
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	21
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	21
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	20
Measuring and explaining the complexity of left-right perceptions of political parties	20
Editorial Board	20
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	20
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	20

Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	19
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	19
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	18
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	17
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	17
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	17
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	16
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	16
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	15
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	14
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	14
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	14
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	14
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	13
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	13
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	13
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	13
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	12
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	12
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	12
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	12
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	12
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	12
Populist parties in European Parliament elections: A new dataset on left, right and valence populism from 1979 to 2019	11
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	11
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	11
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	11
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	11
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	10
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	10
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	10
Free public transit and voter turnout	10
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	9
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	9
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign	9
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	9
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	9
Editorial Board	9
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	9
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	9
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	8
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	8
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	8
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	8
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8

The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	8
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	8
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	7
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	7
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	7
Editorial Board	7
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	7
Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement	7
Editorial Board	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
Editorial Board	7
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	7
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	7
Knowing your sources: Partisan media and voters’ perceptions of the economy	7
Editorial Board	7
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	7
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	6
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	6
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	6
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	6
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	6
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	6
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	6
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	6
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	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
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	5
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
The inconsequence of negative statehouse evaluations on ballot measures: Evidence from survey experiments	5
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	5
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	5
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	5
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	5
Is there a friends-and-neighbors effect for party leaders?	5
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	5
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	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
Isolating the effect of compulsory voting laws on political sophistication: Leveraging intra-national variation in mandatory voting laws between the Austrian Provinces	5
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	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
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	4
The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	4
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	4
Editorial Board	4
Dynamic party system fragmentation	4
Is compulsory voting habit-forming? Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazil	4
Transaction costs in electoral coordination: How turnout shapes changes in the number of parties*	4
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	4
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	4
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	4
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	4
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	4
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	4
The Europeanization of national elections. The role of country characteristics in shaping EU issue voting	4
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	4
The comparative effectiveness of populist rhetoric in generating online engagement	4
Negative voting and party polarization: A classic tragedy	4
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	4
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	4
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	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
Polarization, candidate positioning, and political participation in the U.S.	4
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	4
Editorial Board	4
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	4
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	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
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	4
The electoral consequences of anti-Muslim prejudice	4
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	4
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	4

Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	4
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	3
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	3
A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)	3
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe	3
An experimental investigation of voter myopia in economic evaluations	3
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	3
In-person or convenience voting? The role of the direct costs in explaining preferences for voting modalities	3
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	3
The (non)-religious voter in Canadian elections	3
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	3
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	3
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	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
Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	3
Editorial Board	3
The Swedish historical municipal council database	3
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	3
Turning up and down the partisan heat. Voters’ psychological profile and changes in negative radical partisanship over the course of an election	3
The 2020 presidential election and beliefs about fraud: Continuity or change?	3
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	3
The effect of socioeconomic policy and competence messages on populist radical right support: Evidence from a pre-election survey experiment	3
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	3
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	3
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	3
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	3
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	3
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	3
All-mail voting in Colorado increases turnout and reduces turnout inequality	3
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	3
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	3
War, democratization, and generational cohort effects on participation in Japan	3
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	3
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	3
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	3
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	3
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	3
Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	3
How does rurality affect campaigning?	3
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	3
Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	3
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation	2
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	2
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	2
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	2
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	2
What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	2
Ticking all the boxes? A comparative study of social sorting and affective polarization	2
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	2
Voting propensity and parental depression	2
How to estimate the policy preferences of party supporters: Disaggregating data from voting advice applications versus modeling survey responses	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
The effects of uncontested elections on legislative speechmaking: An analysis of legislative performance in Japan's prefectural assemblies	2
Hidden in plain sight? Irregularities on statutory forms and electoral fraud	2
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	2
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	2
Divided we abstain: Testing the effect of local income inequality on individual-level turnout using Norwegian administrative panel data	2
Editorial Board	2
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	2
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	2
Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote	2
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	2
The effects of local campaigning in Great Britain	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	2
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems	2
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	2
In the right place, at the right time: Opportunity structures and candidates’ chances of getting elected for the first time	2
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	2
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	2
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	2
Coping with complexity: Ballot position effects in the Finnish open-list proportional representation system	2
Mobilizing party activism: A field experiment with party members and sympathizers	2
A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions	2
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	2
Armed and dangerous: Legacies of incumbent-military ties and electoral violence in Africa	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2