Showing papers in "Electoral Studies in 2022"

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the evolving party positions on European integration from 1999 to 2019, with a particular focus on how EU positions are related to economic left-right and the Green/Alternative/Libertarian-Traditional/Authoritarian/Nationalist dimension.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the evolving party positions on European integration from 1999 to 2019, with a particular focus on how EU positions are related to economic left-right and the Green/Alternative/Libertarian-Traditional/Authoritarian/Nationalist dimension (GAL-TAN).

TL;DR: This article used a series of six survey and conjoint experiments implemented in samples collected between July and November of 2020 to show that priming people to think about COVID-19 reduces voter turnout, especially among those who feel most threatened by the disease.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that achieving a degree reduces authoritarianism and racial prejudice and increases economic right-wing attitudes in the British British Cohort Study, showing that higher education is associated with lower levels of authoritarianism, with significant consequences for political behaviour.

TL;DR: The authors found that support for the far right populist candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, is explained by right-wing ideology and illiberal attitudes, with populist attitudes playing a very small role, if any.

TL;DR: This paper used text analysis to substantiate that thermometer scores reflect sentiment towards party supporters, and demonstrate that they go hand-in-hand with preferences for social distance and discrimination in economic games.

TL;DR: Using eleven rotating panels of the Norwegian Election Studies (1977-2017) and exploiting first-derivative properties of the vote choice function, the authors identify non-linear life-cycle effects while controlling for cohort and period effects.

TL;DR: This article found that minority candidates are less likely to win elected office than their more "traditional" counterparts in the aftermath of scandal, and that the mechanism for lessened electability does not lie in greater penalties.

TL;DR: This article examined the associations between sleep duration, chronotype, and turnout with a representative cross-national survey dataset from nine national contexts and found that greater sleep duration is nonlinearly related to higher voter turnout.

TL;DR: The authors examined to what extent social change occurs first and foremost among young people, who set trends that may eventually carry over to older citizens by comparing parties' electoral gains among young voters in 21 Western established democracies between 1948 and 2019.

TL;DR: This paper used a series of six survey and conjoint experiments implemented in samples collected between July and November of 2020 to show that priming people to think about COVID-19 reduces voter turnout, especially among those who feel most threatened by the disease.

TL;DR: This paper examined to what extent this proposition applies to electoral shifts by comparing parties' electoral gains among young (age <25) and older voters (age >24) in 21 Western established democracies between 1948 and 2019.

TL;DR: The authors found that in Western (but not Central and Eastern) Europe there is a linkage between left-right self-placement and climate attitudes that cannot be accounted for by economic egalitarianism or liberal cultural attitudes.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors compare candidates' responses to public voting advice applications with those provided in a post-election confidential survey in the context of the Finnish 2019 parliamentary elections, and find that the responses are similar to those provided by candidates in the two settings.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine perceptions of electoral integrity among Austrian poll workers and citizens using data from an original survey of poll workers, and survey data of the voting population, and conclude that poll workers have greater confidence in the election administration than regular voters but are equally or more skeptical regarding other aspects of election integrity.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore the electoral context of the county sheriff, typically tasked with corrections and policing, and produce the first estimates of electoral competitiveness and incumbency advantage for sheriffs.

TL;DR: The Israel Polarization Panel [IPP] dataset as discussed by the authors was designed specifically to address the lack of comprehensive data that capture multiple dimensions of polarization and examine how they develop over the course of political events such as electoral campaigns or the formation and dissolution of coalition governments.

TL;DR: The authors showed that right-wing governments are not always always punished for sudden increases in crime just before an election, and that rightwing incumbents' resilience to crime spikes could be explained by voters attributing security failures to exogenous factors or by voters still perceiving left-wing and centrist challengers as less competent at addressing crime.

TL;DR: This article examined the role of politically interested non-partisans in the center of the ideological spectrum and examined their ability to select candidates in response to specific issues, concluding that the Covid-19 pandemic had a significant marginal impact on the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyze the early phase of a presidential term, the phase between election day and the first quarter of the first year of the presidential term in which voters form their initial assessment of the new president's administration, a subject understudied by the literature.

TL;DR: This paper found that negative partisanship among Independents predicts voter turnout, political engagement, and strong emotional responses to the election outcome, as well as opposition to bipartisanship.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine the conditions under which changes to PR are likely with cross-national data from all electoral autocracies between 1945 and 2012 and investigate a prominent case of the 2005 switch to PR in Russia.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the increase in fragmentation observed in Brazil is endogenous: it is not caused by the creation of new parties, but by the combination of institutions that, paradoxically, incentivizes marginal candidates to join relatively small parties in order to improve their chances of success.

TL;DR: This paper found that respondents who are ideologically close to the incumbent are more likely to intend to vote against corruption when they are ideologically proximate to an opposition alternative, and the existence of an ideologically viable alternative increases voters' probability of voting against incumbents perceived to be involved in corruption.

TL;DR: In this article , a theoretical framework for understanding the effects of the clarity of alternatives on corruption voting is presented. But it does not examine the accountability enhancing consequences of the choice of alternatives in Latin America.

TL;DR: This article found that competitive elections lead to an increased association between policy agreement and constituent evaluations, but the relationship can be more nuanced and conditional on the level of electoral competition, and they found much more consistency in constituent evaluations over time, while some differences are either statistically insignificant or substantively negligible.

TL;DR: The authors used a series of critical tests which allow for a straightforward identification of proximity and directional voters and the aggregation of the respective shares at the party, election, and country levels, and focused on the reasons which reinforce these alternative or complimentary models.

TL;DR: This paper used a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) design in a recent American election in which the leading candidate on the losing side did not claim to have lost because of vote fraud.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated what proportion of voters select their candidate based on policy proximity in a spatial voting framework and evaluated policy proximity's importance for vote choices, finding that more than 80% of voters choose the most policy proximate candidate.