Electoral Studies

Article	Citations
America's first voter identification laws: The effects of personal registration and declining political party competition on presidential election turnout, 1880–1916	228
Spatial contagion and party competition on environmental issue salience	216
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	74
Cultural sources of gender gaps: Confucian meritocracy reduces gender inequalities in political participation	65
Fairness beyond the ballot: A comparative analysis of failures of electoral integrity, perceptions of electoral fairness, and attitudes towards democracy across 18 countries	40
Compulsory voting, turnout, and support for left-wing parties: The case of Australia	37
Polarization congruence and satisfaction with democracy: A multinational investigation	35
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state	33
Candidate incentive distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives	29
Visible home style	26
Examining public perceptions of US campaign finance over time through survey experiments	26
Time will tear us apart: European electoral participation dynamics in longitudinal perspective	23
Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote	22
Testing the person-positivity bias in a political context: Voters’ affective responses to (non-)personalized individual political actors versus collective political actors	22
Mode of candidacy, electoral prospects, and the ideological deviation of candidacy-seeking politicians from their party leadership	21
Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017	20
Does electoral behavior change after a protest cycle? Evidence from Chile and Bolivia	18
Does sending ballots via post reduce costs? Negligible effect of postal voting on turnout among Finnish electorate living abroad	17
Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?	17
Voting propensity and parental depression	17
Ticking all the boxes? A comparative study of social sorting and affective polarization	16
Mobilizing party activism: A field experiment with party members and sympathizers	15
Negative voting and party polarization: A classic tragedy	15
Citizen response to local service provision: Emerging democratic accountability in decentralized West Africa?	15
Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications	15

The motivated electorate: Voter uncertainty, motivated reasoning, and ideological congruence to parties	15
Fight not flight: The effects of explicit racism on minority political engagement	14
Attention! The meanings of attention to politics in surveys	14
Election type and the logic of pre-election violence: Evidence from Zimbabwe	13
Signal received? Authoritarian elections and the salience of autocrats	13
Socialised to think in terms of left and right? The acceptability of the left and the right among European voters	13
Editorial Board	12
A swing vote from the ethnic backstage: The role of German American isolationist tradition for Trump's 2016 victory	12
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	11
Youth with clipped wings: Bridging the gap from youth recruitment to representation in candidate lists	11
The republic at the centennial: A new dataset of the entire population of legislators and their parliamentary activities in Turkey	11
Anti-immigration party success abroad and voter polarization at home	11
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	11
The electoral consequences of taxation in OECD countries	11
Time to death explains the chronological decline of voter turnout among the older population	11
Research note: Office participation and the dissipating populism-distrust connection	10
Editorial Board	10
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What is bad about clientelism? Citizen perceptions in poor communities in South Africa and Tunisia	10
Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting	10
Denigrating democracy: How electoral competition fuels xenophobia in Lebanon	9
Editorial Board	9
I want to believe: The relationship between conspiratorial beliefs and populist attitudes in Spain	9
The evolution of election forecasting models in the UK	9
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	9
A number most convenient? The representational consequences of legislative size	9
Forecasting elections with October surprises	9
Mind the gap(s): Winning, losing, and perceptions of electoral integrity in mixed-member proportional systems	9
Editorial Board	9
Emotions and voting behavior in self-determination referendums: the case of New Caledonia in 2018	8
Generational change in party support in Germany: The decline of the Volksparteien, the rise of the Greens, and the transformation of the education divide	8
Political polarization, voting and democratic representativeness: Too much or too little?	8
Selective abstention in simultaneous elections: Understanding the turnout gap	8
Who are the non-separable voters?	8
Promoting ethnic equality in campaign messages: Survey experimental evidence from Nairobi, Kenya	8
“What have you done for me lately?” Re-thinking local representation	8
Elite party disunity negatively predicts mass partisan-ideological sorting	8
How do voters perceive ideological congruence? The effects of winning and losing under different electoral rules	8
CSES 25th anniversary special issue: An introduction	8
Is compulsory voting habit-forming? Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazil	7
Candidate appearance in campaign advertisements	7
Estimating relative prevalence of competing issue voting rules in multiparty elections using finite mixture modeling	7
Issue substitution or volume expansion? How parties accommodate agenda change	7
Candidate sex, partisanship and electoral context in Australia	7
Electoral incentives and elite racial identification: Why Brazilian politicians change their race	7
Participation in the administration of elections and perceptions of electoral integrity	7
Nomination and list placement of ethnic minorities under open-list proportional rules: The centrality of ethnopolitical context	7
The glitterati government? Amateur celebrity candidates in American elections, 1928–2018	6
What accounts for Duverger's law? The behavioral mechanisms underpinning two-party convergence in India	6

The comparative effectiveness of populist rhetoric in generating online engagement	6
Are elite cues necessary to drive the “Winner Effect” on trust in elections?	6
Candidate and party affective polarization in U.S. presidential elections: The person-negativity bias?	6
Multi-level muddling: Candidate strategies to “nationalize” local elections	6
How does American public opinion react to overt anti-democratic behavior by politicians? Quasi-experimental evidence from the january 6 insurrection	6
Coping with complexity: Ballot position effects in the Finnish open-list proportional representation system	6
Winning cures everything? Beliefs about voter fraud, voter confidence, and the 2016 election	6
Electoral impacts of a failed uprising: Evidence from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement	6
Technocratic attitudes and voting behaviour ten years after the Eurozone crisis: Evidence from the 2019 EP elections	6
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	6
Partisanship, attribution and approval in a public health shock	6
Do party leadership contests forecast British general elections?	6
Editorial Board	5
Public support for electoral reform: The role of electoral system experience	5
From local elections to appointments: How has municipal reform changed vote delivery in Russian municipalities?	5
Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors	5
Malapportionment in space and time: Decompose it!	5
Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires	5
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	5
Sexism predicts favorability of women in the 2020 democratic primary… and men?	5
Who delivers the votes? Elected versus appointed local executives, election manipulation, and natural support for ruling parties	5
Psychological threat and turnout misreporting	5
So thin it’s almost invisible: Populist attitudes and voting behavior in Brazil	5
Dynamic party system fragmentation	5
Corrigendum to “Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche” [Elect. Stud. 90 (2024) 102818]	5
Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter	5
When populists win: How right-wing populism affects democratic satisfaction in the U.K. and Germany	5
Membership vote for party leadership changes: Electoral effects and the causal mechanisms behind	5
Corrigendum for “Too tired to vote: A multi-national comparison of election turnout with sleep preferences and behaviors” [Elect. Stud., 78 (2022), 102491]	5
Affective polarization in multiparty systems	5
Affective polarization and the salience of elections	5
The European Union and political behaviour: The shadow of the Great Recession	5
Does the monetary cost of abstaining increase turnout? Causal evidence from Peru	4
“Do perceptions of EMU alter clarity of responsibility? A comparison of German and Greek electorates”	4
Measuring and explaining the complexity of left-right perceptions of political parties	4
Succession effects in presidential elections	4
Won't You Be My Senator? Nuanced “Friends and Neighbors” Voting in U.S. Senate Elections, 1968–2018	4
The effects of personal campaign financing on party defection: Evidence from Brazil	4
Natural disasters and the limits of electoral clientelism: Evidence from Honduras	4
Editorial Board	4
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Support for digitising the ballot box: A systematic review of i-voting pilots and a conjoint experiment	4
Do competitive districts get more political attention? Strategic use of geographic representation during campaign and non-campaign periods	4
Mixed evidence for a relationship of cognitive fatigue to political engagement	4
Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence	4
Knowing your sources: Partisan media and voters’ perceptions of the economy	4
Editorial Board	4
Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs	4
The use of adjustment weights in voter surveys. Correcting for panel attrition and nonresponse can produce less accurate estimates of voting behavior	4
Candidate selection and female representation in the context of high corruption: The case of Italy’s 2014 mayor elections	4
In the right place, at the right time: Opportunity structures and candidates’ chances of getting elected for the first time	4
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections	4
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	3
Communicating in an eventful campaign: A case study of party press releases during the German federal election campaign 2021	3
Economic shocks and democratic consolidation: Historical evidence from party-level electoral volatility in France	3
The effect of split-ticket voting cost on effective enfranchisement	3
Do referendum results change norm perceptions and personal opinions?	3
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	3
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems	3
Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?	3
Editorial Board	3
Partisanship & nationalization in American elections: Evidence from presidential, senatorial, & gubernatorial elections in the U.S. counties, 1872–2020	3
Do text messages increase voter registration? Evidence from RCTs with a local authority and an advocacy organisation in the UK	3
When do elections help autocrats? The plight of Palestinians under SNTV in Jordan	3
Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States	3
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	3
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	3
Reverse mortgages and aircraft parts: The arcane referendum and the limits of citizen competence	3
Local racial context, campaign messaging, and public political behavior: A congressional campaign field experiment	3
Elite communication and affective polarization among voters	3
Generational replacement and Green party support in Western Europe	3
Broad-appeal agendas: Issue diversity and the centre-right's electoral success	3
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	3
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context	3
Do green parties in government benefit from natural catastrophes? How wildfires are linked to voting	3
Between impartiality and politicization: Confidence in the judiciary among political winners and losers	3
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The Europeanization of national elections. The role of country characteristics in shaping EU issue voting	3
Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote?	3
Don't call me a populist! The meaning of populism for western European parties and politicians	3

Retrospective voting under supranational constraints	3
Loyalties and interests: How political motivations influence voters’ responses to scandals	3
Coattails and spillover-effects: Quasi-experimental evidence from concurrent executive and legislative elections	2
Does a voter's decision to sit out an election depend upon where others stand?	2
Editorial Board	2
Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit era	2
Revisiting the Lavender Vote	2
When does inequality demobilize? New evidence from the American states	2
Still sacrificial lambs? Yes! Minority groups in Canadian federal elections, 2015–2021	2
The inconsequence of negative statehouse evaluations on ballot measures: Evidence from survey experiments	2
Do populist parties support referendums? A comparative analysis of election manifestos in Europe	2
Is small beautiful? Transitional and structural effects of municipal amalgamation on voter turnout in local and national elections	2
Public opinion backlash in response to party messages: A case for party press releases	2
Vertical vs horizontal affective polarization: Disentangling feelings towards elites and voters	2
From opinions to policies: Examining the links between citizens, representatives, and policy change	2
Electoral incentives and distributive politics in young democracies: Evidence from Chile	2
Less is more: The paradox of choice in voting behavior	2
Personalized politics: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics	2
Who gets persuaded? The heterogeneity of campaign effects in the Brexit referendum	2
Corrigendum to “Sorry not Sorry: Presentational strategies and the electoral punishment of corruption” [Elect. Stud. 92 (2024): 102867]	2
Elections and selfishness	2
Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated	2
Candidate selection and its behavioral consequences	2
Explicit partisan candidate support and bureaucratic responsiveness in hyper-partisan environment: Evidence from a field experiment	2
Ideological proximity, issue importance, and vote choice	2
Young trendsetters: How young voters fuel electoral volatility	2
Not-so-strategic voters	2
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in a polarized political system: Lessons from the 2020 election	2
Designing preference voting	2
Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society	2
Vote choices of left-authoritarians: Misperceived congruence and issue salience	2
Are young candidates “sacrificial lambs”? Evidence from the 2012, 2017, and 2022 French legislative elections	2
Depression and the gender gap in political interest	2
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche	2
An unjustified bad reputation? The Dark Triad and support for populism	2
The effects of relaxing fiscal rules on Political Budget Cycle: A difference-in-discontinuities analysis on Italian municipalities	2
German gays go green? Voting behaviour of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the 2021 German federal election	2
Is there a friends-and-neighbors effect for party leaders?	2
Targeting voters online: How parties’ campaigns differ	2
Stability and change in party preferences: Evidence from Latin America	2
Divided we abstain: Testing the effect of local income inequality on individual-level turnout using Norwegian administrative panel data	2
Editorial Board	2
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study	2
Why Geographically-Targeted Spending Under Closed-List Proportional Representation Favors Marginal Districts	2
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	2
The effect of economic downturns on voter turnout in Africa	2
Spatial voting in non-partisan cities: A case study	2
Do mayors matter? Reverse coattails on congressional elections in Brazil	2
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946–2020	2
Unpacking second-order elections theory: The effects of ideological extremity on voting in European elections	2
Early voting can widen the turnout gap: The case of childbirth	2
Creating critical citizens? Anti-austerity protests and public opinion	2
Party system polarization and the effective number of parties	2
Coalition incentives and party bias in Chile	2
Context matters: Economics, politics and satisfaction with democracy	2
Beyond disdain: Measurement and consequences of negative partisanship as a social identity	1
Camps, not just parties. The dynamic foundations of affective polarization in multi-party systems	1
Careerism and working-class decline: The role of party selectorates in explaining trends in descriptive (mis-)representation	1
Electoral management and vote-buying	1
The dark side of the mood. Candidate evaluation, voter perceptions, and the driving role of (dark) personality traits	1
Do politicians’ answers to voting advice applications reflect their sincere beliefs? Comparing publicly and confidentially stated ideological positions in a candidate-centred electoral context	1
What explains the dynamics of citizens’ satisfaction with democracy? An integrated framework for panel data	1
When are parties punished for serving in a coalition government?	1
Revisiting Clarke and Stewart’s (1995) investigation of PM approval and vote intentions in the UK	1
Corrigendum to ‘Tumultuous pies: Electoral dynamics in the Brexit’ era’ [Electoral Studies 90c (2024) /102821]	1
Candidate sex, corruption and vote choice	1
The consequences of service delivery for voter turnout in Nigeria	1
Elite polarization — The boon and bane of democracy: Evidence from thirty democracies	1
When the US far-right sneezes, the European far-right catches a cold. Quasi-experimental evidence of electoral contagion from Spain	1
Social trust and affective polarization in Spain (2014–19)	1
Like parent, like child: The impact of parental socialisation on class identity and partisanship	1
Labor mobility and semi-presidentialism	1
Dissolution risk and legislative effort of politicians	1
Parliamentary representation of radical right and anti-immigration attitudes	1
Do actions speak louder than words? Evidence on voter behavior from Madrid Rio Park	1
Elections, competition, and constituent evaluations of U.S. senators	1
Closing the gap? The populist radical right and opinion congruence between citizens and MPs	1
Who has room for error? The effects of political scandal for minority candidates	1
Corruption perceptions, opposition parties, and reelecting incumbents in Latin America	1
The telegraph and turnout: Evidence from Sweden	1
Parties’ voter targeting strategies: What can facebook ads tell us?	1
Are women election averse?	1
Shoring up power: Electoral reform and the consolidation of authoritarian rule	1
The political phenotype of the disgust sensitive: Correlates of a new abbreviated measure of disgust sensitivity	1
Does economic inequality undermine political equality? Testing two common assumptions	1
Can political parties narrow the intra-party winner-loser gap? An experimental test of the moderating impact of strategic communication	1
Does proportional representation increase redistribution? Evidence from early 20th century Norwegian municipalities	1
Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures	1
Understanding preferences for descriptive political representation among citizens with immigrant background	1
Does party polarization mobilize or de-mobilize voters? The answer depends on where voters stand	1
The Europeanisation of political involvement: Examining the role of individual transnationalism	1
Populist parties in European Parliament elections: A new dataset on left, right and valence populism from 1979 to 2019	1
Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties	1
Is opinion-policy congruence rewarded at the ballot box?	1
Survival of the fittest. Comparing entry and exit among niche and mainstream parties in advanced democracies, 1945–2011	1