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When Right is Left: Values and Voting Behavior in Tunisia
According to theories on ideological differences, individuals who endorse the values of freedom, justice, and equality are expected to be left-wing...
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STAR Voting, equality of voice, and voter satisfaction: considerations for voting method reform
The vote itself forms the foundation of our political discourse, and how we vote may be the single most important decision in a representative...
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Voting Behavior: Social Characteristics and Current Orientations
In democracies, the right to vote plays a central role. It regulates how politicians come to power to make decisions on behalf of the people for a...
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Socialized into illegal protest? The impact of voting and social media participation
Building upon previous literature on political behavior, contentious social movements, and political communication, this paper aims to identify which...
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Voting for women in recent Canadian elections
While the number of women standing as candidates in federal elections in Canada has surged, it is unclear how voters respond to the increased...
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The case for score voting
Score voting (also called range voting) uses a ratings ballot . Each voter assigns (to as many candidates as she wishes) a number in a specified...
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Invalid Votes as Protest: Compulsory Voting and the Democratic Context in Ecuador
Invalid votes are pervasive in many democracies and can threaten the legitimacy of elections. While often associated with factors such as choice...
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The case for approval voting
Citizens in many US states and cities in recent years have pushed for various reforms of voting methods. This raises the important question of which...
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Social Media, (Mis)information, and Voting Decisions
In a laboratory setting, we study the effect of induced partisanship on costly information acquisition, information sharing, and voting decisions in...
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Responsible Majorities? How Group Composition Drives Partisan Expressive Voting
Individuals sometimes do not “vote their beliefs” but rather to affirm their partisan affiliation. We design an experiment to determine the...
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Strategic Alignment in Times of Crisis: Voting at the Dawn of a Global Pandemic
Natural disasters are likely to increase in the near future. How does the emergence of such events influence voting behavior? While the literature...
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The case for the five in final five voting
My central concern is not, which electoral system would elect the best winner, but rather: which electoral system would be most likely to elect a...
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What difference does a voting rule make?
Using data from Politbarometer surveys and from local American elections in which voters ranked candidates, this paper estimates the frequencies with...
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Coordinated Co-governance and Grassroots Innovation: A Case Study of Shenzhen’s Livelihood-Related Project Voting System
Multi-stakeholder co-governance is essential for boosting governance performance and fostering grassroots governance innovation. In exploring...
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The Impact of Incidental Environmental Factors on Vote Choice: Wind Speed is Related to More Prevention-Focused Voting
How might irrelevant events infiltrate voting decisions? The current research introduces a new mechanism—regulatory focus—by which incidental...
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A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability
In this article, I explore the implications of three moral grounds for the justification of supported voting – respect as opacity, respect as equal...
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Fewer but Younger: Changes in Turnout After Voluntary Voting and Automatic Registration in Chile
Electoral rules are assumed to influence turnout. However, assessing this empirically is challenging because they rarely change and, when they do,...
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Support for Strategic Voting Campaigns: Evidence from a Survey Experiment During the German General Election of 2021
Although strategic voting is common in the first tier of the German electoral system, large-scale campaigns designed to foster strategic voting have...
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Exploring the effect of personalized voting on affective polarization: Prototypical leadership and campaign effects
Recent studies have shown that political information directly associated with a real-world leader tends to generate more (affective) polarization...
