Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	262
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	84
Winning cures everything? Beliefs about voter fraud, voter confidence, and the 2016 election	50
Cultural sources of gender gaps: Confucian meritocracy reduces gender inequalities in political participation	48
The motivated electorate: Voter uncertainty, motivated reasoning, and ideological congruence to parties	39
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	36
Polarization congruence and satisfaction with democracy: A multinational investigation	31
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	29
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	28
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	28
Time will tear us apart: European electoral participation dynamics in longitudinal perspective	27
Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote	24
Does electoral behavior change after a protest cycle? Evidence from Chile and Bolivia	22
Mode of candidacy, electoral prospects, and the ideological deviation of candidacy-seeking politicians from their party leadership	22
Voting propensity and parental depression	21
Candidate appearance in campaign advertisements	20
Mind the gap(s): Winning, losing, and perceptions of electoral integrity in mixed-member proportional systems	19
Negative voting and party polarization: A classic tragedy	18
Mobilizing party activism: A field experiment with party members and sympathizers	18
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	18
Do party leadership contests forecast British general elections?	17
Malapportionment in space and time: Decompose it!	16
The comparative effectiveness of populist rhetoric in generating online engagement	16
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	15
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The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	15
A swing vote from the ethnic backstage: The role of German American isolationist tradition for Trump's 2016 victory	15
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‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	14
The republic at the centennial: A new dataset of the entire population of legislators and their parliamentary activities in Turkey	14
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Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	14
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A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	13
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Elite party disunity negatively predicts mass partisan-ideological sorting	12
Denigrating democracy: How electoral competition fuels xenophobia in Lebanon	12
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	12
Forecasting elections with October surprises	12
Is compulsory voting habit-forming? Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazil	11
Participation in the administration of elections and perceptions of electoral integrity	11
Issue substitution or volume expansion? How parties accommodate agenda change	11
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	11
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	11
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	11
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	10
Time to death explains the chronological decline of voter turnout among the older population	10
Candidate sex, partisanship and electoral context in Australia	10
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	10
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	10
Coping with complexity: Ballot position effects in the Finnish open-list proportional representation system	9
Election type and the logic of pre-election violence: Evidence from Zimbabwe	9
Technocratic attitudes and voting behaviour ten years after the Eurozone crisis: Evidence from the 2019 EP elections	9
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	9
Promoting ethnic equality in campaign messages: Survey experimental evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	9
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	9
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	9
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	9
Visible home style	9
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	8
Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
I want to believe: The relationship between conspiratorial beliefs and populist attitudes in Spain	8
Partisanship, attribution and approval in a public health shock	8
Selective abstention in simultaneous elections: Understanding the turnout gap	8
Multi-level muddling: Candidate strategies to “nationalize” local elections	8
“What have you done for me lately?” Re-thinking local representation	8
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
So thin it’s almost invisible: Populist attitudes and voting behavior in Brazil	7
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	7
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	7
Dynamic party system fragmentation	7
Who are the non-separable voters?	7
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What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	7
Corrigendum for “Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors” [Elect. Stud., 78 (2022), 102491]	7
Corrigendum to “Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche” [Elect. Stud. 90 (2024) 102818]	7
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	7
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	6
Ticking all the boxes? A comparative study of social sorting and affective polarization	6
Socialised to think in terms of left and right? The acceptability of the left and the right among European voters	6
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	6
Generational change in party support in Germany: The decline of the Volksparteien, the rise of the Greens, and the transformation of the education divide	6
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	6
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	6
Political polarization, voting and democratic representativeness: Too much or too little?	6
Do text messages increase voter registration? Evidence from RCTs with a local authority and an advocacy organisation in the UK	5
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	5
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	5
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	5
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	5
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	5
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	5
Won't You Be My Senator? Nuanced “Friends and Neighbors” Voting in U.S. Senate Elections, 1968–2018	5
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	5
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	5
When do elections help autocrats? The plight of Palestinians under SNTV in Jordan	5
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	5
Fight not flight: The effects of explicit racism on minority political engagement	5
Succession effects in presidential elections	5
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	5
Do green parties in government benefit from natural catastrophes? How wildfires are linked to voting	5
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	5
Sexism predicts favorability of women in the 2020 democratic primary… and men?	5
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	5
Knowing your sources: Partisan media and voters’ perceptions of the economy	4
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	4
When populists win: How right-wing populism affects democratic satisfaction in the U.K. and Germany	4
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Don't call me a populist! The meaning of populism for western European parties and politicians	4
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	4
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Psychological threat and turnout misreporting	4
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	4
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	4
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Do competitive districts get more political attention? Strategic use of geographic representation during campaign and non-campaign periods	4
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	4
Membership vote for party leadership changes: Electoral effects and the causal mechanisms behind	4
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	4
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	4
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	4
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems	4
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Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	4
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	3
Natural disasters and the limits of electoral clientelism: Evidence from Honduras	3
Measuring and explaining the complexity of left-right perceptions of political parties	3
“Do perceptions of EMU alter clarity of responsibility? A comparison of German and Greek electorates”	3
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	3
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	3
Public support for electoral reform: The role of electoral system experience	3
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	3
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	3
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	3
Public opinion backlash in response to party messages: A case for party press releases	3
Partisanship & nationalization in American elections: Evidence from presidential, senatorial, & gubernatorial elections in the U.S. counties, 1872–2020	3
Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote?	3
Young trendsetters: How young voters fuel electoral volatility	3
In the right place, at the right time: Opportunity structures and candidates’ chances of getting elected for the first time	3
Divided we abstain: Testing the effect of local income inequality on individual-level turnout using Norwegian administrative panel data	3
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in a polarized political system: Lessons from the 2020 election	3
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	3
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Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	3
Revisiting the Lavender Vote	3
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The Europeanization of national elections. The role of country characteristics in shaping EU issue voting	3
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	3
Retrospective voting under supranational constraints	3
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	3

Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	3
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	3
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	3
Are young candidates “sacrificial lambs”? Evidence from the 2012, 2017, and 2022 French legislative elections	3
Still sacrificial lambs? Yes! Minority groups in Canadian federal elections, 2015–2021	3
Does a voter's decision to sit out an election depend upon where others stand?	3
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	3
Candidate selection and its behavioral consequences	3
Broad-appeal agendas: Issue diversity and the centre-right's electoral success	3
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	3
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	3
The European Union and political behaviour: The shadow of the Great Recession	3
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	3
Reverse mortgages and aircraft parts: The arcane referendum and the limits of citizen competence	3
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	3
When does inequality demobilize? New evidence from the American states	2
The downstream consequences of long waits: How lines at the precinct depress future turnout	2
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	2
Understanding vote buying in Nepali elections	2
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	2
Attitudes toward competing voting-right requirements: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	2
Electoral incentives and distributive politics in young democracies: Evidence from Chile	2
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	2
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	2
The partisan heuristic and the voters’ knowledge: The essential role of the information environment	2
Why Geographically-Targeted Spending Under Closed-List Proportional Representation Favors Marginal Districts	2
Vote choices of left-authoritarians: Misperceived congruence and issue salience	2
The inconsequence of negative statehouse evaluations on ballot measures: Evidence from survey experiments	2
From opinions to policies: Examining the links between citizens, representatives, and policy change	2
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	2
Do referendum results change norm perceptions and personal opinions?	2
The effects of relaxing fiscal rules on Political Budget Cycle: A difference-in-discontinuities analysis on Italian municipalities	2
Corruption perceptions, opposition parties, and reelecting incumbents in Latin America	2
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	2
Did you see it coming? Explaining the accuracy of voter expectations for district and (sub)national election outcomes in multi-party systems	2
Do local leaders prioritize the poor: Identifying the distributive preferences of village politicians in India	2
Stability and change in party preferences: Evidence from Latin America	2
Is there a friends-and-neighbors effect for party leaders?	2
Do working-class candidates activate class-based voting?	2
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	2
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	2
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	2
Affective polarization and habits of political participation	2
Is small beautiful? Transitional and structural effects of municipal amalgamation on voter turnout in local and national elections	2
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	2
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	2
Coattails and spillover-effects: Quasi-experimental evidence from concurrent executive and legislative elections	2
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	2
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	2
Context matters: Economics, politics and satisfaction with democracy	2
How proportional are electoral systems? A universal measure of electoral rules	2
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	2
Brands that bind: How party brands constrain blurred electoral appeals	2
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	2
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	2
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	2
Not-so-strategic voters	2
Creating critical citizens? Anti-austerity protests and public opinion	2
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Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	2
The partisan costs of automatic voter registration	1
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The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	1
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Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	1
Negative partisanship among Independents in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections	1
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	1
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	1
The empowerment effect of visible political representation: Examining the impact of Muslim representation on political outcomes	1
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	1
Who cares about the culture war? Evidence from a vote choice conjoint experiment	1
Gone, but not forgotten? The German federal election 2021 and the effect of an incumbent who did not run	1
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Permissive electoral systems and descriptive representation	1
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Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	1
Do we only have narcissists to choose from?	1
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	1
How does information affect vote choice in open-list PR systems? Evidence from a survey experiment mimicking real-world elections in Switzerland	1
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	1
Generational differences in economic perceptions	1
Retrospective pledge voting and mistrusting citizens: Evidence for the electoral punishment of pledge breakage from a survey experiment	1
Assessing Trump's presidential endorsements while in and out of office (2018–2022)	1
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	1
Winning & losing in coalition systems. A quasi-experimental study of the effect of coalition formation on satisfaction with democracy	1
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	1
The conditional effect of personal vote-seeking behaviors on MPs electoral performance: Evidence from an open-list PR system	1
Coming of voting age. Evidence from a natural experiment on the effects of electoral eligibility	1
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	1
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	1
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	1
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	1
When the election rains out and how bad weather excludes marginal voters from turning out	1
Elite polarization — The boon and bane of democracy: Evidence from thirty democracies	1
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	1