Tag: Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Ranked choice voting shows simple dynamics and limited exhaustion
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Study of ranked choice voting across 110 real elections shows competitive benefits, transparent dynamics, and minimal vulnerability to manipulation or ballot exhaustion.
Plant closure reduced incumbent votes, but effects faded after compensation
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Analysis of Danish shipyard closure shows plant closures reduce incumbent support through unemployment and blame attribution, but targeted compensation policies can neutralize electoral effects.
Voters use ideological labels to infer candidate policy positions
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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.
Longer distances to polling places reduce in-person voting
Geographic analysis shows that voting distance reduces in-person turnout by 1-3 percentage points per mile, with mail-in voting substitution when available.
Youth-oriented voting advice tool improved party position knowledge
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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.
Survey wording may shape Black women’s reported emotions and political participation
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Survey methodology influences emotion reporting among Black women in political participation, revealing gaps in intersectional theories of affect and electoral engagement.
Economic negativity linked to abstention and Eurosceptic support
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Explore how economic voting in European elections depends on whether voters blame the EU for economic conditions, driving abstention and Eurosceptic party support.
Swiss parties join referendum campaigns for policy and image reasons
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Strategic analysis of political party participation in referendum campaigns, examining public attention, issue salience, and initiator status across 33 Swiss referendums using regression analysis.
Progressive bishops helped boost support for Brazil’s Workers’ Party
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Analysis of how progressive Catholic bishops in Brazil facilitated Workers’ Party electoral success by advocating redistribution, using papal transition as natural experiment.
Issue competence shapes voting in European Parliament elections
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Study of 2019 European Parliamentary elections across 10 countries reveals that party issue competence affects voting, with stronger effects when voters attribute responsibility to the European level.
