Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	68
Forecasting elections with October surprises	62
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	60
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	46
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	45
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	44
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	43
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	37
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	34
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	33
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	31
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	30
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	29
Who punishes the government? Income-based disparities in economic voting	28
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	28
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	27
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	27
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	25
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	23
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	22
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	19
Populist leaders and the political budget cycle	19
Editorial Board	18
Assessing the impact of internet voting on voter turnout in the 2024 Russian presidential elections	18
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	17

Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	17
Time, money, and support: Exploring young adult representation in state legislatures	17
Vote choice under certainty, risk, and uncertainty	15
Threat of taxation and turnout of the rich: Evidence from danish upper house elections	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
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	15
Theories and measurement of political values and under-represented groups: the case of women in the UK	15
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	14
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	14
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	14
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	14
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	14
Do Citizens Tolerate Antidemocratic Statements?	13
Editorial Board	13
Ableist institutions and party selection processes: Exploring the political recruitment of disabled candidates	13
Candidate awareness in mixed-member electoral systems: A data-driven approach	13
Toothless compulsory voting can increase turnout: Evidence from India	13
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	13
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Elect. Stud., Volume 61 (2019), 102064]	12
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	12
Winning incumbent mayors: Causal effects on local public spending, service delivery, and governance-related conflict in Indonesia	12
Partisanship and voting behavior reconsidered in the age of polarization	11
Turning to the radical right: Examining subnational variation in radical right support after ethnic minority success in East Central Europe	11
Policy signals and strategic voting for minor parties: Evidence from Germany	11
The effect of combining a populist rhetoric into right-wing positions on candidates’ electoral support	11
Greater intra-party democracy in candidate selection has different effects on gender, ethnicity and class	11
Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany	11
Free public transit and voter turnout	11
Do strategic voters have a strategic personality? Examining the role of machiavellianism in strategic voting	11
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	11
Young adults' under-representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives	10
The local party voter: A localist anti-establishment voter?	10
Who pays for crime? Criminal violence, right-wing incumbents, and electoral accountability in Latin America	10
Facts Speak Louder? Comparing the attention effects of moral and factual framing of political issues	10
Corrigendum to ‘Does switching pay off? The impact of parliamentary party instability on individual electoral performance’ [Elect. Stud. Volume 99, February 2026, 103037]	10
When rebels lose: The impact of civil war legacies on contemporary electoral outcomes in Peru, 2011–2021	10
Does the measure of party system size matter with incomplete election returns? The case of Ireland	10
The nature and impact of emotional content in congressional candidate emails to supporters	10
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? – Evidence from Sweden	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
Does disability affect support for political parties?	9
Nomination rules and the calculus of mobilization: Theory and evidence from Mexico	9
The electoral consequences of racial fluidity	9
Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of place resentment	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
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	9
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	8

Editorial Board	8
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	8
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	8
The impact of youth pro-climate policy preferences on political support: evidence from salience shifts in Germany	8
Editorial Board	8
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	8
Fickle loyalties: Intragroup competition in open list elections	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
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	8
Editorial Board	8
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	8
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	8
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	7
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
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	7
Party organizational strength and voter turnout in authoritarian regimes	7
District protectionism: Public opinion on race, partisanship, and redistricting change	7
Voting alone: Early voting and turnout in couples	7
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	7
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	7
Electoral risk and vote buying, introducing prospect theory to the experimental study of clientelism	7
Citizens’ evaluations of electoral pledge fulfilment in Finland: Individual pledges and overall government performance	7
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
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	7
Protest and opposition parties’ election strategies	7
Editorial Board	7
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	7
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
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
Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?	6
Evaluating nonresponse and non-sampling error trends in election studies	6
Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation	6
Does populist voting rise where representative democracy is systemically failing?	6
Speech targeting and constituency representation in open-list electoral systems	6
Support for a populist form of democratic politics or political discontent? How conceptions of democracy relate to support for the AfD	6
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	6
Electoral colorism: Candidate skin color and list placement in Ecuador	6
The rural-urban cleavage in US presidential elections: Stability and sudden change	6
Corrigendum to ‘Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study’ [Electoral Studies 90 (2024) 102826]	6
Corrigendum to ‘Voting at 16: Intended and unintended consequences of Austria's electoral reform’ [Electoral Studies, 61 (2019), 102064]	6
Political violence and invalid voting: A case study	6
Has age replaced class in British Elections?A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis	6
Local news, partisanship, and perceptions about election administration	6
Sowing the seeds of skepticism? Electoral-integrity beliefs among political elites	5
Brexit, beliefs about immigration, and satisfaction with democracy	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
The resilience of local democracy: Natural disasters and the incumbent survival effect	5
Electoral backsliding? Democratic divergence and trajectories in the quality of elections worldwide	5
Does the early bird always get the worm? First round advantages and second round victories in Latin America	5
Emigrant external voting in Central-Eastern Europe after EU enlargement	5
Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?	5
Momentum in the polls raises electoral expectations	5
Amplifying the message? The effect of endorsements in primary elections	5
“And some, I assume, are good people”: Determinants of elites’ strategic discourse about immigrants and refugees	5
Effects of a politician’s reputation for providing electoral clientelism: A theory with evidence from Brazil	5
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	5
Identity after the ballot: How winning and losing impact partisan attachments and affective polarization	5
An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting	5
Candidate confirmation timing and voter preferences in Canadian federal elections	5
Wishful thinking in mass–elite electoral expectations	5
Institutional personalism and personalised behaviour: Electoral systems, candidate selection methods, and politicians’ campaign strategy	5
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States	5
Ethnic diversity, deprivation, and populist radical right voting: A rural-urban perspective on AfD support in Germany	5
Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems	5
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	4
Editorial Board	4
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	4
The dynamics of tactical voting: What explains repeated tactical voting behavior?	4
Election outcomes and social trust in polarized times	4
How swing model assumptions shape vote-to-seat predictions	4
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe	4
Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments	4
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	4
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	4
Party gatekeeping of working-class candidates under closed-list proportional representation	4

Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	4
The psychological basis of the urban–rural divide: Evidence from Germany	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
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	4
Electoral outcomes and satisfaction with democracy: A comparison of regional and national elections	4
Burdens and gains. The association between house rent increases and voting in the city of Madrid	4
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	4
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	4
How does rurality affect campaigning?	4
The urban-rural cleavage: Analysing more than 40 years of Norwegian survey data	4
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	4
Editorial Board	4
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	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
Editorial Board	4
Economic growth, largest-party vote shares, and electoral authoritarianism	4
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	4
Turning up and down the partisan heat. Voters’ psychological profile and changes in negative radical partisanship over the course of an election	4
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	4
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	4
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	4
Broadcasting party information: Can the introduction of community radio reduce the effective number of parties?	3
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	3
Mass higher education and voter turnout in the U.S.	3
The (non)-religious voter in Canadian elections	3
From convergence to Corbyn: Explaining support for the UK’s radical left	3
The effects of uncontested elections on legislative speechmaking: An analysis of legislative performance in Japan's prefectural assemblies	3
Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not	3
Using the areal unit segregation measure to identify racially “packed” and “cracked” legislative districts	3
The Swedish historical municipal council database	3
Understanding the disability voting gap in the UK	3
Too young to win? Exploring the sources of age-related electoral disadvantage	3
Generational differences in economic perceptions	3
An attentive audience? If and how voters evaluate coalition formation	3
Ideological identity, issue-based ideology and bipolar affective polarization in multiparty systems: The cases of Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and Spain	3
Editorial Board	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
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	3
Bandwagon or Titanic? How outcome expectations influence voting in direct democracy	3
In-person or convenience voting? The role of the direct costs in explaining preferences for voting modalities	3
Electoral Messiah or Party Label? Quantifying and Investigating Leader-Party Relationships in German Federal Elections 1998–2021	3
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	3
Look to Denmark or not? An experimental study of the Social Democrats’ strategic choices	3
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	3
Politics by denunciation: Political whistleblowing against members of parliament in Italy	3
Whom to trust and when? Party message perception in multiparty systems	3
The education and income voting divides in Canada and their consequences for redistributive politics	3
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems: A study of three consecutive elections in the Netherlands	3
A quiet and invisible challenge: Depressive symptoms and the evaluation of democratic institutions	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
Values and candidate evaluation: How voters respond to allegations of sexual harassment	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
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	2
Exodus and vote: Mass emigration and voter turnout in Honduras	2
The Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across Europe	2
Revisiting the Lavender Vote	2
Editorial Board	2
Cultivating trust? The role of European Union investments in bridging rural-urban divides	2
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	2
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	2
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	2
In the right place, at the right time: Opportunity structures and candidates’ chances of getting elected for the first time	2
Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election	2
Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation	2
Armed and dangerous: Legacies of incumbent-military ties and electoral violence in Africa	2
The Political Representation of Young Adults: Explaining youth's underrepresentation in parties, candidacies and parliaments	2
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	2
Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	2
Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote?	2
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
Negative partisanship in Western Europe	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
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	2
Editorial Board	2
Conditional loyalty: Partisanship and voter responses to corruption	2
All the “Missing” ladies: Attribution bias in candidate selection after electoral setbacks	2
Policy conflict between political elites shapes mass environmental beliefs	2
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	2
Magnitude matters: Voter turnout under different electoral systems	2
Divided we abstain: Testing the effect of local income inequality on individual-level turnout using Norwegian administrative panel data	2
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	2
The partisan heuristic and the voters’ knowledge: The essential role of the information environment	2
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	2
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	2
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	2
Voter support for illiberal candidates: Demonstrating the differential influence of authoritarianism's three facets on vote choice	2
Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral support in Western European multiparty systems (1949–2021)	2
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	2
The Downsian roots of affective polarization	2
Going on the offensive: Negative messaging in British general elections	2