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An Ideology by Any Other Name
The terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ are prominent features of political discourse in the United States, and many citizens choose to identify with...
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Who is Mobilized to Vote by Short Text Messages? Evidence from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Young Voters
Using a large randomized controlled trial and rich individual-level data on eligible voters and their household members, we evaluate how...
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CueAnon: What QAnon Signals About Congressional Candidates and What it Costs Them
Most research investigates why the public embraces conspiracy theories, but few studies empirically examine how Americans evaluate the politicians...
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Can Elite Allegations of Election Fraud Demobilize Supporters?
Can allegations of electoral fraud and misconduct undermine participation in democratic politics? If so, how large and long lasting are these turnout...
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Are Women Politicians Kind and Competent? Disentangling Stereotype Incongruity in Candidate Evaluations
Academia and political campaigners conventionally cast gender stereotypes as an electoral liability for women in politics. Incongruent stereotype...
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How Political Representation Empowers Women
Addressing the question of how to tackle gender inequalities, we test whether women who perceive women’s representation in politics as achievement...
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Visual Conjoint vs. Text Conjoint and the Differential Discriminatory Effect of (Visible) Social Categories
Does learning political candidates’ social categories through visual cues affect voter preferences? This paper explores this question by conducting a...
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Is Some Politics Still Local? Voter Preferences for Local Candidates
Previous literature has demonstrated electoral advantages for candidates with backgrounds in the communities they represent, even amidst the trends...
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Explaining the German lobbying register law and its reform: combining insights from the Multiple Streams Framework and Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
This paper explains the adoption and reform of the German lobbying register law in 2021 and 2023 as a major policy change in German lobbying...
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Can the Fairer Sex Save the Day? Voting for Women After Corruption Scandals in Latin America
Voters often perceive female politicians to be less corrupt than male politicians, and recent work posits that political parties use this perception...
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Procedure Matters: The Distinct Attitudinal Feedback Effects of Immigration Policy
Natives who dislike immigrants prefer restrictive immigration policies, but do those policies deepen or alleviate anti-immigrant attitudes? Existing...
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The Personalization of Electoral Participation? The Relationship Between Trait Evaluations of Presidential Candidates and Turnout Decisions in American Presidential Elections 1980–2020
The personalization thesis claims that leaders’ influence over voters has increased. While research consistently shows that candidates influence...
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Online Abuse of Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Politicians’ Own Perceptions
Criticism from dissatisfied citizens is an inevitable part of being an elected politician in a democracy. However, when negative feedback from...
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Violent Riots and South African Satisfaction with Democracy
The past decade has witnessed growing challenges to democracies around the world, with rising levels of democratic discontent and political violence....
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The Drowning-Out Effect: Voter Turnout and Protests
Conventional wisdom suggests that a high turnout in a free and fair election would be laudable; it might signify proper representation and hence...
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Holy Nations: How White Racism Boosts Black Support for Christian Nationalism
Current work on Christian nationalism emphasizes its strong correlation with exclusion of racial minorities and support for racialized policy, but...
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Revolving door benefits? The consequences of the revolving door for political access
Do policymakers grant greater access to organized interests employing their former colleagues? While a growing literature examines the “revolving...
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Nonprofit coalitions: recasting equity, engagement and effectiveness
Nonprofit advocacy coalitions are a distinctive but poorly understood type of coalition. This study is the product of a rare opportunity to...
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The Donor Went Down to Georgia: Out-of-District Donations and Rivalrous Representation
Most of the money spent in U.S. congressional campaigns comes from donors residing outside the race’s electoral district. Scholars argue that...
