Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Study of ranked choice voting across 110 real elections shows competitive benefits, transparent dynamics, and minimal vulnerability to manipulation or ballot exhaustion.

Analysis of Danish shipyard closure shows plant closures reduce incumbent support through unemployment and blame attribution, but targeted compensation policies can neutralize electoral effects.

Machine learning analysis identifies which macroeconomic conditions drive presidential approval ratings. Public sector activity, recession timing, and housing markets show distinct temporal dynamics.

Analysis of six million responses to Belgium's Voting Advice Application reveals voters lack ideological coherence while elites maintain consistent ideological structures.

Study reveals voters in multiparty systems use left-right ideology labels to infer candidate positions, even when their own ideology misaligns with their policy preferences.

Integrating emotional mechanisms into the Advocacy Coalition Framework to explain policy subsystem dynamics, coalition stability, and membership persistence.

Geographic analysis shows that voting distance reduces in-person turnout by 1-3 percentage points per mile, with mail-in voting substitution when available.

Experimental study shows youth-oriented voting advice application significantly improved party position knowledge among Belgian voters aged 16–30, while generic version had no effect.

Study of German journalists reveals institutional pressures and structural constraints that undermine cordons sanitaires against far-right parties, contributing to far-right mainstreaming.

Opposition and government members use geographic parliamentary questions differently for oversight and representation across democracies. Study reveals strategic distinctions in four countries.

Survey of Canadian renters reveals prospective homeowners hold rightward policy views but don't vote accordingly, suggesting ideology predates homeownership.

Literature review of 20 studies examining foreign-born political underrepresentation in Swedish parliament and local councils alongside analysis of factors enabling or hindering their participation.

Analysis of the Meloni government's exceptional longevity in Italy, examining how multiple stabilizing mechanisms converge across the coalition lifecycle to produce durable governance.

Article examining the gap between international party support practitioners and comparative researchers, identifying differing conceptualizations of party function as a barrier to convergence.

Survey methodology influences emotion reporting among Black women in political participation, revealing gaps in intersectional theories of affect and electoral engagement.

Explore how economic voting in European elections depends on whether voters blame the EU for economic conditions, driving abstention and Eurosceptic party support.

Strategic analysis of political party participation in referendum campaigns, examining public attention, issue salience, and initiator status across 33 Swiss referendums using regression analysis.

Study on how citizen participation in deliberative assemblies increases institutional legitimacy in Honduras, even when participants disagree with outcomes.

Transformer-based approach for automated measurement of inter-party communication in representative democracies, with applications to coalition signals and negative campaigning analysis.

Examine how Philippine congressional budget hearings use politeness strategies to balance authority, accountability, and institutional hierarchy in legislative proceedings.