Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	72
Forecasting elections with October surprises	60
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	56
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	52
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	41
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	40
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	38
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	37
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	31
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	30
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	27
Who punishes the government? Income-based disparities in economic voting	26
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	26
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	26
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	25
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	25
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	25
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	24
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	21
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	19
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	18
Editorial Board	17
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	16
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	16
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	16

Assessing the impact of internet voting on voter turnout in the 2024 Russian presidential elections	15
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	15
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	15
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	15
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	15
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	14
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	14
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	14
Threat of taxation and turnout of the rich: Evidence from danish upper house elections	14
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	14
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	14
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	14
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	14
Editorial Board	13
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	13
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	12
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	12
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	12
Ableist institutions and party selection processes: Exploring the political recruitment of disabled candidates	12
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	12
Facts Speak Louder? Comparing the attention effects of moral and factual framing of political issues	11
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	11
Winning incumbent mayors: Causal effects on local public spending, service delivery, and governance-related conflict in Indonesia	11
Free public transit and voter turnout	11
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	11
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	11
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	11
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	11
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	10
Do strategic voters have a strategic personality? Examining the role of machiavellianism in strategic voting	10
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	10
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	10
Greater intra-party democracy in candidate selection has different effects on gender, ethnicity and class	10
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	10
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	9
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	9
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	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
Emphasizing or downplaying political ambitions: Exploring the role of candidate gender in shaping voter perceptions	9
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	9
Editorial Board	9
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	9
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	9
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	9
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	9
Editorial Board	8
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	8

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

From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	4
How does rurality affect campaigning?	4
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	4
The resilience of local democracy: Natural disasters and the incumbent survival effect	4
Ethnic diversity, deprivation, and populist radical right voting: A rural-urban perspective on AfD support in Germany	4
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	4
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	4
Party gatekeeping of working-class candidates under closed-list proportional representation	4
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	4
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	4
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	4
Editorial Board	4
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	3
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe	3
Ideological identity, issue-based ideology and bipolar affective polarization in multiparty systems: The cases of Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and Spain	3
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	3
Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	3
How do underrepresented voters view electoral system trade-offs?	3
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	3
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	3
Mass higher education and voter turnout in the U.S.	3
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	3
Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020)	3
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3
Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	3
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands	3
Election outcomes and social trust in polarized times	3
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	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
Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	3
The Swedish historical municipal council database	3
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	3
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	3
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	3
Burdens and gains. The association between house rent increases and voting in the city of Madrid	3
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	3
An attentive audience? If and how voters evaluate coalition formation	3
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	3
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	3
The (non)-religious voter in Canadian elections	3
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	3
Editorial Board	3
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2
Money talks? Party financial incentives to promote underrepresented groups	2
Do working-class candidates activate class-based voting?	2
Negative partisanship in Western Europe	2
Cultivating trust? The role of European Union investments in bridging rural-urban divides	2
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	2
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	2
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	2
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	2
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	2
Divided we abstain: Testing the effect of local income inequality on individual-level turnout using Norwegian administrative panel data	2
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	2
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems	2
A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions	2
The effects of uncontested elections on legislative speechmaking: An analysis of legislative performance in Japan's prefectural assemblies	2
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	2
Magnitude matters: Voter turnout under different electoral systems	2
With a little help from the crowd: Estimating election fraud with forensic methods	2
Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote?	2
All the “Missing” ladies: Attribution bias in candidate selection after electoral setbacks	2
Editorial Board	2
What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	2
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	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
Editorial Board	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	2
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	2
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	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
Bandwagon or Titanic? How outcome expectations influence voting in direct democracy	2
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
The partisan heuristic and the voters’ knowledge: The essential role of the information environment	2
Do local leaders prioritize the poor: Identifying the distributive preferences of village politicians in India	2
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	2
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	2
In the right place, at the right time: Opportunity structures and candidates’ chances of getting elected for the first time	2
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	2
Voting propensity and parental depression	2
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	2
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
Voter support for illiberal candidates: Demonstrating the differential influence of authoritarianism's three facets on vote choice	2
Armed and dangerous: Legacies of incumbent-military ties and electoral violence in Africa	2
Revisiting the Lavender Vote	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2