Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	375
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	59
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	53
Forecasting elections with October surprises	45
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	40
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	36
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	33
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	31
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	28
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	27
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	27
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	25
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	24
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	23
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	22
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	22
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	21
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	21
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	20
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	20
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	19
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	18
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	17
Editorial Board	16
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	16

Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	15
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	14
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	13
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	13
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	13
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	12
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	12
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	12
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	12
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	12
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	11
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	11
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	11
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	11
Editorial Board	11
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	10
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	10
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	10
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	10
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	10
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	10
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	10
Facts Speak Louder? Comparing the attention effects of moral and factual framing of political issues	10
Election-induced fiscal policy cycles in democratic and non-democratic emerging market and developing economies	9
Free public transit and voter turnout	9
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	9
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	9
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	9
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	9
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	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	8
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	8
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	8
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	8
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	8
Editorial Board	8
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	8
Emphasizing or downplaying political ambitions: Exploring the role of candidate gender in shaping voter perceptions	8
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	8
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	7
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	7
Editorial Board	7
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	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
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	7
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Editorial Board	7
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	7

Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	7
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	7
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	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
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	6
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	6
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	6
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	6
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
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	6
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	6
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	6
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	6
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	6
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	6
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	6
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	6
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	6
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	6
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	6
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	6
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	6
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	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
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	5
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	5
Does prepaid postage increase voter turnout? An analysis across time and municipalities in Switzerland	5
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	5
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	5
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	5
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	5
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	5
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	5
Identity after the ballot: How winning and losing impact partisan attachments and affective polarization	5
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	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
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	5
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	5
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	5
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	5
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	5
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	5
Dynamic party system fragmentation	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
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	4
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	4
How does rurality affect campaigning?	4
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	4
Turning up and down the partisan heat. Voters’ psychological profile and changes in negative radical partisanship over the course of an election	4
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	4
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	4
Editorial Board	4
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	4
The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	4
“And some, I assume, are good people”: Determinants of elites’ strategic discourse about immigrants and refugees	4
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	4
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	4
The urban-rural cleavage: Analysing more than 40 years of Norwegian survey data	4
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	4
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	4
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	4
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	4
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	4
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	4
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	4
Editorial Board	4
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	4
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	4
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	4
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	4
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	3
The Swedish historical municipal council database	3
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	3
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	3
Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	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
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe	3
Left parties’ strategies and working-class vote in contemporary Western Europe (2002–2020)	3
A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)	3
The effect of socioeconomic policy and competence messages on populist radical right support: Evidence from a pre-election survey experiment	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
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
Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments	3
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	3
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	3
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	3
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	3
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	3
In-person or convenience voting? The role of the direct costs in explaining preferences for voting modalities	3
Mass higher education and voter turnout in the U.S.	3
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	3
Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	3
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	3
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	3
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands	3
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	3
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	3
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	3
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	2
Divided we abstain: Testing the effect of local income inequality on individual-level turnout using Norwegian administrative panel data	2
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	2
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	2
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	2
Armed and dangerous: Legacies of incumbent-military ties and electoral violence in Africa	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
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	2
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	2
The partisan heuristic and the voters’ knowledge: The essential role of the information environment	2
Magnitude matters: Voter turnout under different electoral systems	2
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	2
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	2
Negative partisanship in Western Europe	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	2
Voter support for illiberal candidates: Demonstrating the differential influence of authoritarianism's three facets on vote choice	2
A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions	2
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	2
The effects of uncontested elections on legislative speechmaking: An analysis of legislative performance in Japan's prefectural assemblies	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	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
Not-so-strategic voters	2
With a little help from the crowd: Estimating election fraud with forensic methods	2
Revisiting the Lavender Vote	2
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	2
A cognitive model of depression and political attitudes	2
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	2
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems	2
What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	2
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation	2
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	2
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Do local leaders prioritize the poor: Identifying the distributive preferences of village politicians in India	2
Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote?	2
Voting propensity and parental depression	2
Cultivating trust? The role of European Union investments in bridging rural-urban divides	2