Category : Studies

The national elections in Niger, February–March 2016

Publication date: September 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 43 Author(s): Lisa Mueller, Lukas Matthews

Voting for locals: Voters' information processing strategies in open-list PR systems

Publication date: September 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 43 Author(s): Michael Jankowski While most of the literature on information shortcuts in open-list PR systems focuses on the importance of ballot position effects, t...

Running on Character? Running on Policy? An Analysis of Japanese Candidates’ Campaign Platforms

Publication date: December 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 44 Author(s): James F. Adams, Ethan Scheiner, Jed Kawasumi We present theoretical and empirical analyses of candidates' platforms in the 2003 and 2009 Japanese Ho...

The political participation of disabled people in Europe: Rights, accessibility and activism

Publication date: June 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 42 Author(s): Mark Priestley, Martha Stickings, Ema Loja, Stefanos Grammenos, Anna Lawson, Lisa Waddington, Bjarney Fridriksdottir This paper provides the fir...

The Religious and Spiritual Underpinnings of Party Choice in Christian Europe

Publication date: December 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 44 Author(s): Pascal Siegers, Simon Franzmann, Mira Hassan Many studies have shown that individual religiosity is related to a Christian Democratic vote. Recently...

Detecting manipulation in authoritarian elections: Survey-based methods in Zimbabwe

Publication date: June 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 42 Author(s): Michael Bratton, Boniface Dulani, Eldred Masunungure This paper explores the feasibility of using social surveys to detect electoral manipulation in aut...

The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout. Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Publication date: December 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 44 Author(s): Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola We analyse how the presence of an incumbent among candidates at an election affects electoral turnout. We u...

Income-based voting and polarization over redistribution under alternative electoral systems

Publication date: June 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 42 Author(s): Agnar Freyr Helgason Democracies that have proportional electoral systems spend substantively more on welfare policies than those that have majoritarian sys...

Can Citizens Care Too Much? Investment in Election Outcomes and Perceptions of Electoral Legitimacy

Publication date: December 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 44 Author(s): Andrew M. Daniller Might there be a downside to citizen engagement with elections? The tendency for citizens who supported a winning candidate or party...

Election note: The 2014 midterm elections in the United States

Publication date: Available online 22 August 2016 Source:Electoral Studies Author(s): Walt Borges

Electoral effects of candidate valence

Publication date: June 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 42 Author(s): Dominic Nyhuis Ideological proximity is not the sole determinant of electoral choices. Voters frequently select candidates whose policy profiles do not exhi...

The Lasting Impact of Adolescence on Left-Right Identification: Cohort Replacement and Intracohort Change in Associations with Issue Attitudes

Publication date: December 2016 Source:Electoral Studies, Volume 44 Author(s): Roderik Rekker This study examined how the ideological correlates of left-right identification in the Netherlands changed between 1980 and 2008, and whe...