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Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections
This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look...
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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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Too Young to Run? Voter Evaluations of the Age of Candidates
Why do elected officials tend to be much older than most of their constituents? To understand the mechanisms behind the underrepresentation of young...
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Why Do Voters Prefer Local Candidates? Evidence from a Danish Conjoint Survey Experiment
Political candidates enjoy a well-documented electoral advantage near their place of residence. But knowing that voters prefer candidates who live...
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Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain
Rising support for populist parties and candidates has become a key story of recent decades, making headlines in Western democracies and beyond....
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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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Implications of strategic position choices by candidates
I examine the implications of strategic position choices by candidates under two different voting rules: Instant Runoff and Condorcet-Minimax. A...
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How Do Unions Create Candidates?
Organizations play a critical role in develo** citizen political participation. Though unions are one of the few organizations focused on the...
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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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Does the number of candidates increase turnout? Causal evidence from two-round elections
A long-lasting question in comparative politics is whether the number of candidates/parties increases turnout. Existing observational studies on the...
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The Relevance of Religion for Political Office: Voter Bias Toward Candidates from Different Religious Backgrounds
Over the last several decades, Gallup data shows an increased willingness among members of the public to support presidential candidates from a wide...
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Hardwired to attack. Candidates’ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries
A growing body of studies shows that the reasons for competing candidates to “go negative” on their opponents during elections—that is, attacking...
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Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates
A central premise in representative democracy is that people vote for the party or candidate offering the best fit with their policy preferences....
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The 2020 Campaign: Candidates in a New World
This chapter examines political marketing in the 2020 elections through what Andrew Yang would call the math. Despite all the Democratic primary’s...
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Local Candidates, Place-Based Identities, and Electoral Success
While a large body of literature empirically documents an electoral advantage for local candidates, the exact mechanisms accounting for this effect...
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How German Parties Select Candidates of Immigrant Origin Neutrality, Opening or Closure?
This book analyzes the threshold candidates of immigrant background need to overcome to run for legislative office. Understanding whether political...
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Sexual Harassment and Candidate Evaluation: Gender and Partisanship Interact to Affect Voter Responses to Candidates Accused of Harassment
Public airing of incidents of sexual harassment have moved abuse from the shadows to the light, spurring mass response in the form of #MeToo and...
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Are Immigrant Origin Candidates Any Different?
Before presenting a full-fledged analysis of party selection behavior toward immigrant origin candidates, this chapter compares the composition of...
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When Women Run, Voters Will Follow (Sometimes): Examining the Mobilizing Effect of Female Candidates in the 2014 and 2018 Midterm Elections
In this paper, we examine whether women candidates are more likely to spur turnout in election years when gender-related issues are central to the...
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The Persistence of Prejudice: Voters Strongly Penalize Candidates with HIV
Forty million people around the world and more than one million in the United States live with HIV. Despite the gains in the prevention and treatment...
