Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
How the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and their voters veered to the radical right, 2013–2017	119
Incumbency as a source of spillover effects in mixed electoral systems: Evidence from a regression-discontinuity design	111
Endogenous economic voting: evidence from the 1997 British election	105
Terror and elections: Lessons from Spain	96
The economy, corruption, and the vote: Evidence from experiments in Sweden and Moldova	82
Measuring party positions and issue salience from media coverage: Discussing and cross-validating new indicators	81
Strategic coalition voting: Evidence from Austria	70
Poverty and vote buying: Survey-based evidence from Africa	70
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019	67
Proportional representation and attitudes about politics: results from New Zealand	65
Do voters turn out more under proportional than majoritarian systems? The evidence from Swiss communal elections	60
Split-voting in the Federal Republic of Germany: An analysis of the federal elections from 1953 to 1987	59
Partisan mail and voter turnout: results from randomized field experiments	59
Internet voting and turnout: Evidence from Switzerland	56
Representative misconduct, voter perceptions and accountability: Evidence from the 2009 House of Commons expenses scandal	53
From the Luxembourg compromise to codecision: Decision making in the European Union	53
Does the economy really matter for satisfaction with democracy? Longitudinal and cross-country evidence from the European Union	50
From voter ID to party ID: How political parties affect perceptions of election fraud in the U.S.	50
From Argentina to Zambia: a world-wide test of economic voting	45
Partisanship and confidence in the vote count: Evidence from U.S. national elections since 2000	44
Does voting rights affect the political maturity of 16- and 17-year-olds? Findings from the 2011 Norwegian voting-age trial	43
How partisan affect shapes citizens' perception of the political world	43
From ballots to bullets: an empirical assessment of how national elections influence state uses of political repression	41
Campaign spending effects in U.S. Senate elections: Evidence from the National Annenberg Election Survey	40
Strategic coalition voting: Evidence from New Zealand	38

Ballot position and election results: Evidence from a natural experiment	38
Evaluating partisan gains from Congressional gerrymandering: Using computer simulations to estimate the effect of gerrymandering in the U.S. House	36
Do conditional cash transfer programs shift votes? Evidence from the Honduran PRAF	36
How do citizens attribute responsibility in multilevel states? Learning, biases and asymmetric federalism. Evidence from Spain	36
Turnout in Germany in the course of time: Life cycle and cohort effects on electoral turnout from 1953 to 2049	36
Trust in elections and the institutional design of electoral authorities: Evidence from Latin America	36
Valence beyond consensus: Party competence and policy dispersion from a comparative perspective	35
Voting for women in nonpartisan and partisan elections	33
Does Election Day weather affect voter turnout? Evidence from Swedish elections	33
Does low turnout matter? Evidence from the 2000 Canadian federal election	32
Economic voting under the economic crisis: Evidence from Greece	31
Do impersonal mobilisation methods work? Evidence from a nationwide Get-Out-the-Vote experiment in England	31
The dynamics of aggregate political popularity: evidence from eight countries	31
The political participation of disabled people in Europe: Rights, accessibility and activism	30
Seven imperatives for improving the measurement of party nationalization with Evidence from Chile	30
Does globalization affect public perceptions of ‘Who in power can make a difference’? Evidence from 40 countries, 1996–2006	29
Popular evaluations of election quality in Africa: Evidence from Nigeria	29
From polls to votes to seats: Forecasting the 2010 British general election	28
Partisanship in non-partisan electoral agencies and democratic compliance: Evidence from Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute	28
The alternative vote and ethnic accommodation: New evidence from Papua New Guinea	27
Turkey's bid for EU membership, contrasting views of public opinion, and vote choice. Evidence from the 2005 German federal election	27
Ballot design and invalid votes: Evidence from Colombia	26
From political conflict to partisan evaluations: How citizens assess party ideology and competence in polarized elections	26
Democracy and the personal vote: A cautionary tale from Japan	26
Only conservatives are voting in the rain: Evidence from German local and state elections	26
Candidate effects and spill-over in mixed systems: Evidence from New Zealand	25
When do voters actually think “It’s the Economy”? Evidence from the 2008 presidential campaign	25
Do citizens make inferences from political candidate characteristics when aiming for substantive representation?	24
Incumbency advantage and candidate characteristics in open-list proportional representation systems: Evidence from Indonesia	23
Who you know: Local party presidents and minority candidate emergence	23
Personality traits, political attitudes and vote choice: Evidence from the United States	23
‘Left behind’ people, or places? The role of local economies in perceived community representation	23
Resource disparity and multi-level elections in competitive authoritarian regimes: Regression discontinuity evidence from Hong Kong	22
The effects of lawn signs on vote outcomes: Results from four randomized field experiments	22
Racial heterogeneity and the effective number of candidates in majority runoff elections: Evidence from Louisiana	22
Local candidates and voter mobilization: Evidence from historical two-round elections in Norway	22
The path from trade to right-wing populism in Europe	21
Campaign trial heats as electoral information: Evidence from the 2004 and 2006 Canadian federal elections	21
Where is vote buying effective? Evidence from a list experiment in Kenya	19
“Fake news” and the defection of 2012 Obama voters in the 2016 presidential election	19
Ideological proximity and valence competition. Negative campaigning through allegation of corruption in the Italian legislative arena from 1946 to 1994	19
Do voters affect or elect policies? A new perspective, with evidence from the U.S. Senate	19
Consideration set models of electoral choice: Theory, method, and application	19
Disengaging voters: Do plurality systems discourage the less knowledgeable from voting?	19
Is referendum voting distinctive? Evidence from three UK cases	19
Who gains from apparentments under D’Hondt?	18
The effects of campaign finance spending bans on electoral outcomes: Evidence from the states about the potential impact of Citizens United v. FEC	18
Consociationalism and its critics: Evidence from the historic Northern Ireland Assembly election 2007	18
Responsibility attribution in coalition governments: Evidence from Germany	17
Presidential coattails and electoral coordination in multilevel elections: Comparative lessons from Brazil	17

From uninformed to informed choices: Voters, pre-election polls and updating	16
What is the cost of voting?	16
Social pressure, surveillance and community size: Evidence from field experiments on voter turnout	16
Terrorism, gender, and the 2016 U.S. presidential election	16
The role of partisan cues in voter mobilization campaigns: Evidence from a randomized field experiment	16
Survey questions about party competence: Insights from cognitive interviews	16
Does electoral competition affect public goods provision in dominant-party regimes? Evidence from Tanzania	15
The political cost of taxation: New evidence from German popularity ratings	15
The household effect on electoral participation. A contextual analysis of voter signatures from a French polling station (1982–2007)	15
Electoral cycles in pork barrel politics: Evidence from South Korea 1989–2008	14
Does education affect immigration attitudes? Evidence from an education reform	14
Does survey mode matter for studying electoral behaviour? Evidence from the 2009 German Longitudinal Election Study	14
Punishing without rewards? A comprehensive examination of the asymmetry in economic voting	14
Does increasing district magnitude increase the number of parties? Evidence from Spain, 1982–2011	14
The conditioning role of polarization in U.S. senate election outcomes: A direct-election era & voter-level analysis	13
The meaning of elections in transitional democracies: Evidence from Russia and Ukraine	13
Pathways to trump: Republican voters in 2016	13
Building policy scales from manifesto data: A referential content validity approach	13
Do local leaders know their voters? A test of guessability in India	13
Campaigns, candidate evaluations, and vote choice: Evidence from German federal election campaigns, 1980–2002	12
The single transferable vote and ethnic conflict: The evidence from Northern Ireland	12
The impact of women above the political glass ceiling: Evidence from a Norwegian executive gender quota reform	12
The effect of incumbency in national and local elections: Evidence from South Korea	12
Strategic voting, information, and ethnicity in emerging democracies: Evidence from Kenya	12
How voter mobilization from short text messages travels within households and families: Evidence from two nationwide field experiments	12
Ethnic diversity decreases turnout. Comparative evidence from over 650 elections around the world	12
Incumbency advantage in multi-member districts: Evidence from congressional elections in Chile	12
The distorting effects of racial animus on proximity voting in the 2016 elections	12
Persistence and aggregations of survey data over time: from microfoundations to macropersistence	11
The fact remains: Party ID moderates how voters respond to economic change	11
Moderation or radicalisation? How executive power affects right-wing populists’ satisfaction with democracy	11
Do parties respond strategically to opinion polls? Evidence from campaign statements	11
Testing sincere versus strategic split-ticket voting at the aggregate level: Evidence from split house–president outcomes, 1900–2004	11
Comparative election forecasting: Further insights from synthetic models	11
Voter reactions to candidate background characteristics depend on candidate policy positions	11
Polarization and correct voting in U.S. presidential elections	11
The incumbency disadvantage in South Korean National Assembly elections: Evidence from a regression discontinuity approach	11
The measurement of electoral competition, with application to Indian states	11
Learning who not to vote for: The role of parental socialization in the development of negative partisanship	11
How (often) do voters change their consideration sets?	11
Bad characters or just more polarization? The rise of extremely negative feelings for presidential candidates	10
‘What do we have to lose?’: Local economic decline, prospect theory, and support for Brexit	10
Does polarization affect even the inattentive? Assessing the relationship between political sophistication, policy orientations, and elite cues	10
Parallel lines? Policy mood in a plurinational democracy	10
Does online voting change the outcome? Evidence from a multi-mode public policy referendum	9
Assessing (and fixing?) Election Day lines: Evidence from a survey of local election officials	9
Generation effects? Evolution of independence–unification views in Taiwan, 1996–2016	9
Mobilizing different types of voters: The influence of campaign intensity on turnout in direct democratic votes	9
Attributing responsibility in devolved contexts. Experimental evidence from the UK	9
From polls to votes to seats: Forecasting the 2015 British general election	9
Is there an intrinsic duty to vote? Comparative evidence from East and West Germans	9
Two strategies for building a personal vote: Personalized representation in the UK and Denmark	9
Compared to what? Media-guided reference points and relative economic voting	9
What voters want from their parties: Testing the promise-keeping assumption	9
Ethnic minority voters in the UK 2015 general election: A breakthrough for the Conservative party?	9
Who supports minority rights in popular votes? Empirical evidence from Switzerland	9
Socializing Democrats: Examining Asian American vote choice with evidence from a national survey	9
The wisdom of crowds design for sensitive survey questions	9
Ringing the alarm: The media coverage of the fulfillment of electoral pledges	9
From a two-party-plus to a one-party-plus? Ideology, vote choice, and prospects for a competitive party system in Canada	8
Social identity and coethnic voting in the Middle East: Experimental evidence from Qatar	8
Misleading ballot position cue: Party voting in Korea's nonpartisan local elections	8
With a little help from my neighbours: A spatial analysis of the impact of local campaigns at the 2010 British general election	8
Random votes under compulsory voting: Evidence from Brazil	8
From ideology to performance: Austerity and government defection in the 2014 European Parliament elections	8
Populist parties in European Parliament elections: A new dataset on left, right and valence populism from 1979 to 2019	8
Are 16-year-olds able to cast a congruent vote? Evidence from a “voting at 16” initiative in the city of Ghent (Belgium)	8
Do local elections predict the outcome of the next general election? Forecasting British general elections from local election national vote share estimates	8
Ethnic heterogeneity and electoral turnout: Evidence from linking neighbourhood data with individual voter data	8
Violence, voting & peace: Explaining public support for the peace referendum in Colombia	7
The relationship between political attitudes and political participation: Evidence from monozygotic twins in the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark	7
From the parish to the polling booth: Evolution and interpretation of the political gender gap in Italy, 1968–2006	7
Measuring bias: Moving from two-party to three-party elections	7
Candidate competition and strategic coordination: evidence from four early Norwegian elections	7
Is compulsory voting habit-forming? Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazil	7
The leaky pipeline and sacrificial lambs: Gender, candidate nomination, and district assignment in South Korea's national legislative elections	7
From opinions to policies: Examining the links between citizens, representatives, and policy change	7
Economic globalisation, the perceived room to manoeuvre of national governments, and electoral participation: Evidence from the 2001 British General Election	7
Does ticket-splitting decrease the accuracy of recalled previous voting? Evidence from three German panel surveys	7
How representative are referendums? Evidence from 20 years of Swiss referendums	7

Which kind of political campaign messages do people perceive as election pledges?	7
Religious voting and moral traditionalism: The moderating role of party characteristics	7
Turnout and weather disruptions: Survey evidence from the 2012 presidential elections in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy	7
Estimating the potential impact of nonvoters on outcomes of parliamentary elections in proportional systems with an application to German national elections from 1949 to 2009	7
Exploring uniformity and variability in local electoral outcomes: Some evidence from English local elections 1985–1991	7
Measures and votes: Party performance under free list proportional representation with evidence from Ecuador	7
Deviations from proportionality and survival in new parliamentary democracies	7
An analysis of the changing social bases of America's political parties: Group support in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections	7