Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	277
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	87
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	51
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	51
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	40
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	38
Editorial Board	34
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	33
Forecasting elections with October surprises	30
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	29
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	28
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	25
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	24
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	23
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	23
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	22
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	22
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	22
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	21
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	20
Editorial Board	19
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	18
Measuring and explaining the complexity of left-right perceptions of political parties	18
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	18
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	16

The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	16
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	16
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	16
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	16
Editorial Board	15
The subnational electoral coercion in India (SECI) data set, 1985–2015	15
Sorry Not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption	15
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	15
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	15
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	14
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	14
The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia	13
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	13
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	13
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	13
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	12
Editorial Board	12
The predictable campaign: Theory and evidence	12
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	11
Populist parties in European Parliament elections: A new dataset on left, right and valence populism from 1979 to 2019	11
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	11
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	11
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	11
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	11
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	11
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	11
Free public transit and voter turnout	10
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems	10
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	10
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	10
Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values	9
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	9
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	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
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	8
Does disability affect support for political parties?	8
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	8
The effects of election polls in Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign	8
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	8
Perceived negativity in British general election communications	8
Partisanship, blame avoidance behaviours and voter reactions to allegations of political misconduct	8
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
Editorial Board	8
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	8
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	8
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

A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	7
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	7
Editorial Board	7
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	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
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	7
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	7
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	7
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	6
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	6
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	6
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	6
Editorial Board	6
Knowing your sources: Partisan media and voters’ perceptions of the economy	6
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	6
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	6
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	6
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	6
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 politicians’ answers to voting advice applications reflect their sincere beliefs? Comparing publicly and confidentially stated ideological positions in a candidate-centred electoral context	5
The inconsequence of negative statehouse evaluations on ballot measures: Evidence from survey experiments	5
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	5
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	5
Is there a friends-and-neighbors effect for party leaders?	5
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	5
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	5
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	5
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	5
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	5
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	4
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	4
Transaction costs in electoral coordination: How turnout shapes changes in the number of parties*	4
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	4
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	4
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	4
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	4
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	4
The comparative effectiveness of populist rhetoric in generating online engagement	4
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	4
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	4
The electoral consequences of anti-Muslim prejudice	4
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters?	4
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	4
Lock them up! Punitive aggression and populism as political vigilantism	4
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	4
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	4
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	4
Polarization, candidate positioning, and political participation in the U.S.	4
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	4
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	4
Isolating the effect of compulsory voting laws on political sophistication: Leveraging intra-national variation in mandatory voting laws between the Austrian Provinces	4
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	4
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	4
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	4
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	4
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	4
What shapes voter expectations of Muslim politicians’ views on homosexuality: stereotyping or projection?	4
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	3
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	3
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	3
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	3
Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	3
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	3
Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	3
Corrigendum for “Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors” [Elect. Stud., 78 (2022), 102491]	3
Dynamic party system fragmentation	3
The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	3
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	3
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	3
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	3
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	3
Editorial Board	3
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	3
Ideological identity, issue-based ideology and bipolar affective polarization in multiparty systems: The cases of Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and Spain	3
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	3
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	3
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	3
The Europeanization of national elections. The role of country characteristics in shaping EU issue voting	3

Negative voting and party polarization: A classic tragedy	3
Is compulsory voting habit-forming? Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazil	3
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	3
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	3
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	3
Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	3
Puzzling parents? The perception and adoption of parental political orientations in the Dutch multiparty setting	3
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	3
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	3
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	3
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	3
Editorial Board	3
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	3
Editorial Board	3
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	3
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	3
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	3
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	3
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	2
Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote	2
The 2020 presidential election and beliefs about fraud: Continuity or change?	2
Coping with complexity: Ballot position effects in the Finnish open-list proportional representation system	2
In-person or convenience voting? The role of the direct costs in explaining preferences for voting modalities	2
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	2
War, democratization, and generational cohort effects on participation in Japan	2
Ticking all the boxes? A comparative study of social sorting and affective polarization	2
Editorial Board	2
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
Hidden in plain sight? Irregularities on statutory forms and electoral fraud	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	2
How to estimate the policy preferences of party supporters: Disaggregating data from voting advice applications versus modeling survey responses	2
Voting propensity and parental depression	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	2
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	2
An experimental investigation of voter myopia in economic evaluations	2
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	2
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	2
All-mail voting in Colorado increases turnout and reduces turnout inequality	2
What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	2
The effect of socioeconomic policy and competence messages on populist radical right support: Evidence from a pre-election survey experiment	2
The (non)-religious voter in Canadian elections	2
A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	2
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation	2
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	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
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	2
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	2
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	2
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	2
The effects of local campaigning in Great Britain	2
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	2
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	2
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	2
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	2
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	2
Mobilizing party activism: A field experiment with party members and sympathizers	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