Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	67
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	59
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	53
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	49
Forecasting elections with October surprises	40
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	40
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	37
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	34
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	30
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	29
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	26
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	26
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	25
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	25
Who punishes the government? Income-based disparities in economic voting	24
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	24
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	24
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	23
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	21
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	18
Editorial Board	17
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	17
Assessing the impact of internet voting on voter turnout in the 2024 Russian presidential elections	16
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	16
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	15

The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	15
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	15
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	15
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	14
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	14
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	14
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	13
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	13
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	13
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	13
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	13
Editorial Board	12
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	12
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	12
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	12
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	12
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	11
Free public transit and voter turnout	11
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	11
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Ableist institutions and party selection processes: Exploring the political recruitment of disabled candidates	11
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	11
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	11
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	10
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	10
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	10
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	10
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	10
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	10
Facts Speak Louder? Comparing the attention effects of moral and factual framing of political issues	10
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	10
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	9
Corrigendum to ‘Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance’ [Elect. Stud. Volume 99, February 2026, 103037]	9
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	9
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	9
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	9
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	9
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	9
Editorial Board	9
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	9
Emphasizing or downplaying political ambitions: Exploring the role of candidate gender in shaping voter perceptions	9
Editorial Board	9
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	9
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	9
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	8
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	8

Editorial Board	8
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	8
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	8
Fickle loyalties: Intragroup competition in open list elections	8
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	7
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	7
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	7
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Childhood poverty and political participation: The role of family, gender and economic mobility	7
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	7
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	7
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	7
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	7
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	7
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	7
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	7
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	7
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	7
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	7
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	7
Party organizational strength and voter turnout in authoritarian regimes	7
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	6
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	6
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	6
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	6
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	6
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	6
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	6
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	6
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	6
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	6
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	6
The rural-urban cleavage in US presidential elections: Stability and sudden change	6
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	6
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	6
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	6
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	6
Does prepaid postage increase voter turnout? An analysis across time and municipalities in Switzerland	6
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	6
Political violence and invalid voting: A case study	6
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	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	6
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	5
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	5
Preaching to the converted: Misinformation and voter preferences in election campaigns	5
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	5
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	5
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	5
“And some, I assume, are good people”: Determinants of elites’ strategic discourse about immigrants and refugees	5
Wishful thinking in mass–elite electoral expectations	5
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	5
Identity after the ballot: How winning and losing impact partisan attachments and affective polarization	5
Amplifying the message? The effect of endorsements in primary elections	5
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	5
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	5
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	4
The urban-rural cleavage: Analysing more than 40 years of Norwegian survey data	4
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Editorial Board	4
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	4
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	4
Turning up and down the partisan heat. Voters’ psychological profile and changes in negative radical partisanship over the course of an election	4
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	4
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	4
How does rurality affect campaigning?	4
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	4
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	4
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	4
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	4
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	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
The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	4
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	4
Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments	4
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	4
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	4
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	4
Party gatekeeping of working-class candidates under closed-list proportional representation	4
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	4

Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	4
Effects of a politician’s reputation for providing electoral clientelism: A theory with evidence from Brazil	4
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	4
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	4
Burdens and gains. The association between house rent increases and voting in the city of Madrid	4
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	4
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	3
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	3
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	3
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	3
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Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe	3
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	3
Armed and dangerous: Legacies of incumbent-military ties and electoral violence in Africa	3
Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	3
The effects of uncontested elections on legislative speechmaking: An analysis of legislative performance in Japan's prefectural assemblies	3
A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions	3
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	3
The Swedish historical municipal council database	3
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands	3
An attentive audience? If and how voters evaluate coalition formation	3
Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	3
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	3
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	3
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	3
The (non)-religious voter in Canadian elections	3
Oppression of Catholics in Prussia does not explain spatial differences in support for the radical right in Germany. A critique of Haffert (2022)	3
In-person or convenience voting? The role of the direct costs in explaining preferences for voting modalities	3
The effect of socioeconomic policy and competence messages on populist radical right support: Evidence from a pre-election survey experiment	3
How do underrepresented voters view electoral system trade-offs?	3
Mass higher education and voter turnout in the U.S.	3
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	3
Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020)	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
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	3
Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	3
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	3
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	3
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	2
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	2
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	2
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	2
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	2
Negative partisanship in Western Europe	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	2
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	2
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Like parent, like child: The impact of parental socialisation on class identity and partisanship	2
Applicability of quantitatively predictive logical models at subnational level of governance: Testing the Seat Product Model on Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak regional elections	2
With a little help from the crowd: Estimating election fraud with forensic methods	2
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	2
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems	2
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	2
Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote?	2
What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	2
Revisiting the Lavender Vote	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Cultivating trust? The role of European Union investments in bridging rural-urban divides	2
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	2
Who are the internet voters? An age, period and cohort analysis of e-voting use	2
A cognitive model of depression and political attitudes	2
Do working-class candidates activate class-based voting?	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	2
The partisan heuristic and the voters’ knowledge: The essential role of the information environment	2
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	2
In the right place, at the right time: Opportunity structures and candidates’ chances of getting elected for the first time	2
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	2
Voter support for illiberal candidates: Demonstrating the differential influence of authoritarianism's three facets on vote choice	2
Voting propensity and parental depression	2
Divided we abstain: Testing the effect of local income inequality on individual-level turnout using Norwegian administrative panel data	2
All the “Missing” ladies: Attribution bias in candidate selection after electoral setbacks	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	2
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Magnitude matters: Voter turnout under different electoral systems	2
Wrong place or wrong party? LGBTQ2S+ candidates and district competitiveness	2
Do local leaders prioritize the poor: Identifying the distributive preferences of village politicians in India	2
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	2