Publications

This page lists peer-reviewed publications written by members of the Democracy and Elections Centre over the last five years.

If you would like to read a publication written by a member of the centre but are unable to access a pay-walled copy, please contact the author. Authors can usually share pre-print or open access versions of their works.

2024
  • John Bartle, Nicholas Allen, Thomas Quinn "The United Kingdom Party System", in Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy",
  • Royal Holloway Group PR3710, Nicholas Allen "The good, the not so good, and Liz Truss: MPs' evaluations of postwar prime ministers", The Political Quarterly, 95, 315--323. [DOI]
  • Philip Warncke, Donald Searing, Nicholas Allen "Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom", European Journal of Political Research, 63, 1129--1154. [DOI]
  • Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen, John Bartle "Why was there a Hard Brexit? The British Legislative Party System, Divided Majorities and the Incentives for Factionalism", Political Studies, 72, 227--248. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto The History of the EU Budget. [DOI]
  • Ursula Hackett "The United States of America", in The 2024 Annual Register
  • Christopher Hanretty "How not to conduct a regression discontinuity design using a continuous measure of democracy", Party Politics, . [DOI]
  • Chris Hanretty, Jill Sheppard "Legislators' accountability for issue stances: evidence from Australia's Marriage Law Postal Survey", Australian Journal of Political Science, . [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty, Tim Bale, Monica Poletti, Paul Webb "Local party members' views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion", British Journal of Politics and International Relations, . [DOI]
  • Jennifer Piscopo "Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals", PS: Political Science & Politics, . [DOI]
  • Asbel Bohigues, Piscopo, Jennifer M., Amy Alexander "The Foundational Effects of Gender: Exploring Latin American Elites' Perceptions of Corruption", Legislative Studies Quarterly, . [DOI]
  • Jennifer Piscopo, Julieta Su\'arez-Cao "New Institutions, New Actors, New Rules: Gender Parity and Feminist Constitution Writing in Chile", european journal of politics and gender, 1--21. [DOI]
  • Amanda Clayton, Diana O'Brien, Jennifer Piscopo "Founding Narratives and Men's Political Ambition: Experimental Evidence from US Civics Lessons", British Journal of Political Science, 54, 129--151. [DOI]
  • James Sloam, Matt Henn "How Young People can Shape Environmental Policy in Urban Spaces", POLICY AND POLITICS, . [DOI]
  • Royal Holloway Group PR3710, Nicholas Allen "The good, the not so good, and Liz Truss: MPs' evaluations of postwar prime ministers", The Political Quarterly, 95, 315--323. [DOI]
  • Philip Warncke, Donald Searing, Nicholas Allen "Active, assertive, anointed, absconded? Testing claims about career politicians in the United Kingdom", European Journal of Political Research, 63, 1129--1154. [DOI]
  • Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen, John Bartle "Why was there a Hard Brexit? The British Legislative Party System, Divided Majorities and the Incentives for Factionalism", Political Studies, 72, 227--248. [DOI]
  • Chris Hanretty "How not to conduct a regression discontinuity design using a continuous measure of democracy", Party Politics, . [DOI]
  • Chris Hanretty, Jill Sheppard "Legislators' accountability for issue stances: evidence from Australia's Marriage Law Postal Survey", Australian Journal of Political Science, . [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty, Tim Bale, Monica Poletti, Paul Webb "Local party members' views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion", British Journal of Politics and International Relations, . [DOI]
  • Oliver Heath, Christopher Prosser, Humphrey Southall, Paula Aucott "The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK", The Political Quarterly, . [DOI]
  • Oliver Heath, Louise Tillin, Jyoti Mishra, Sanjay Kumar, Sandhya Venkateswaran "Poor Health: Credit and Blame Attribution in India's Multi-Level Democracy", World Development",, 185, . [DOI]
  • Christopher Prosser "Fragmentation revisited: the UK general election of 2024", West European Politics, . [DOI]
  • Edward Fieldhouse, Ralph Scott, Christopher Prosser, Jack Bailey, Jonathan Mellon "Who lacks voter identification? The electoral implications of the Elections Act 2022", Parliamentary Affairs, . [DOI]
  • Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser "Regularized Regression Can Reintroduce Backdoor Confounding: The Case of Mass Polarization", American Political Science Review, . [DOI]
2023
  • Nora Siklodi, Kenny Ie, Nicholas Allen "From gender equity to gendered assignments? Women and cabinet committees in Canada and the United Kingdom", Government and Opposition, 1--24. [DOI]
  • Nicholas Allen "Those who wear the crown wield the knife: the brutality of recent takeover reshuffles", The Political Quarterly, 94, 36--44. [DOI]
  • Iain Begg, Le Cacheux, Jacques, Alessandro Liscai, Rispal Nicolas, Giacomo Benedetto Options for a stronger and more agile EU budget. [DOI]
  • Zhamilya Mukasheva, Sofia Collignon, Ursula Hackett "Electoral Accountability for Rising Tuition in the US: Evidence From a Survey Experiment and Observational Data", The Journal of Higher Education, 1--24. [DOI]
  • Ursula Hackett "Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court", Perspectives on Politics, . [DOI]
  • Denis Cohen, Christopher Hanretty "Simulating party shares", Political Analysis, . [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty "The effect of employment on attendance: a response to \Identifying and understanding the drivers of student engagement\textquoteright", Politics, . [DOI]
  • Oliver Heath, Monica Bennett "Unequal Britain: the reawakening of class divisions", in British Social Attitudes 40",
  • Oliver Heath, Jyoti Mishra, Louise Tillin, Sandhya Venkateswaran Democracy and Health in India: Is Health an Electoral Priority?. [DOI]
  • Edward Fieldhouse, Geoffrey Evans, Jane Green, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Jack Bailey "Volatility, Realignment, and Electoral Shocks: Brexit and the UK General Election of 2019", PS: Political Science & Politics, 56, 537--545. [DOI]
  • Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Jordan Urban, Adam Feldman "Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation", Political Studies, . [DOI]
  • O'Brien, Diana Z., Piscopo, Jennifer M. "Gender and Political Representation in Times of Crisis", Politics & Gender, 19, 891--899. [DOI]
  • Amy Alexander, Asbel Bohigues, Jennifer Piscopo "Opening the Attitudinal Black Box: Three Dimensions of Latin American Elites' Attitudes about Gender Equality", Political Research Quarterly, 76, 1265--1280. [DOI]
  • Amanda Clayton, Diana O'Brien, Jennifer Piscopo "Exclusion by Design: Locating Power in Mansbridge's Account of Descriptive Representation", Politics & Gender, 19, 1251--1255. [DOI]
  • Jennifer Piscopo, Gwynn Thomas, Peter Siavelis, Magda Hinojosa "Lessons from a Late Adopter: Feminist Advocacy, Democratizing Reforms, and Gender Quotas in Chile", Journal of Politics in Latin America, . [DOI]
  • Jennifer Piscopo, V\'azquez Correa, Lorena "From 30 percent to gender parity in everything: the steady route to raising women's political representation in Mexico", International Feminist Journal of Politics, . [DOI]
  • Amanda Clayton, Diana O'Brien, Jennifer Piscopo "Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women's Political Ambition", American Political Science Review, 117, 1465--1485. [DOI]
  • James Sloam "Youth Voice and Sustainable Public Policy: Rejuvenating Urban Democracy", in United Nations World Public Sector Report 2023
  • Nicholas Allen "Those who wear the crown wield the knife: the brutality of recent takeover reshuffles", The Political Quarterly, 94, 36--44. [DOI]
  • Zhamilya Mukasheva, Sofia Collignon, Ursula Hackett "Electoral Accountability for Rising Tuition in the US: Evidence From a Survey Experiment and Observational Data", The Journal of Higher Education, 1--24. [DOI]
  • Ursula Hackett "Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court", Perspectives on Politics, . [DOI]
  • Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Jordan Urban, Adam Feldman "Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation", Political Studies, . [DOI]
2022
  • Giacomo Benedetto "Euroscepticism in the EU", in The State of the European Union
  • Giacomo Benedetto, Iain Begg, Daina Belicka, Francesco Corti, Nu\~nez Ferrer, Jorge, Eulalia Rubio The Next Revision of the Financial Regulation and the EU Budget Galaxy: How to safeguard and strengthen budgetary principles and parliamentary oversight. [DOI]
  • Ursula Hackett "Federalism", in Developments in American Politics 9
  • Christopher Hanretty "Party system polarization and the effective number of parties", Electoral Studies, 76, . [DOI]
  • Oliver Heath, Adam Ziegfeld "Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?", American Political Science Review, 1--7. [DOI]
  • Piscopo, Jennifer M., Susan Franceschet "Policymaking, Constituency Service, and the Pandemic: How Working Remotely Transformed U.S. State Legislators' Representative Roles", Representation, 58, 289--300. [DOI]
  • Jennifer Piscopo, Magda Hinojosa, Gwynn Thomas, Peter Siavelis "Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile", Comparative Political Studies, 55, 222--253. [DOI]
  • Ben O'Loughlin, James Sloam "Cycles of Insecurities: Understanding the Everyday Politics of Young Londoners", Cities, 127, . [DOI]
  • James Sloam, Sarah Pickard, Matt Henn "Young People and Environmental Activism: The Transformation of Democratic Politics: Introduction to Special Issue of The Journal of Youth Studies", Journal of Youth Studies, . [DOI]
  • Laura Serra, Kaat Smets "Age and Generation", in The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation
  • Laura Jacobs, van Spanje, Joost "Who's Afraid of Terror News? The Interplay between News Consumption Patterns, Personal Experiences and Fear of Terrorism", Mass Communication and Society, . [DOI]
  • van Spanje, Joost, Rachid Azrout "The plight of the discredited: Electoral effects of stigmatizing and prosecuting an anti-immigration politician", Acta Politica, 57, 396--419. [DOI]
  • Rekker, R S B, van Spanje, Joost "Hate speech prosecution of politicians and its effect on support for the legal system and democracy", British Journal of Political Science, 52, 886--907. [DOI]
  • van Spanje, Joost, Rachid Azrout "Killing them softly?: Two complementary studies on visibility and framing of new parties in the news", Journalism, 23, 278--294. [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty "Party system polarization and the effective number of parties", Electoral Studies, 76, . [DOI]
  • Ben O'Loughlin, James Sloam "Cycles of Insecurities: Understanding the Everyday Politics of Young Londoners", Cities, 127, . [DOI]
2021
  • Nicholas Allen "Cabinet government", in Brexit and Beyond
  • Na Breaking the Deadlock: Britain at the Polls, 2019. [DOI]
  • Nicholas Allen, Judith Bara "Clear Blue Water? The 2019 Party Manifestos", The Political Quarterly, 92, 531--540. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto "Book Review: The European Union Budget in Times of Crisis, by Kaiser, R. and Prange-Gstöhl, H.", Journal of Common Market Studies, 59, 741--742. [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty, Jonathan Mellon, Patrick English "Members of Parliament are minimally accountable for their issue stances (and they know it)", American Political Science Review, 115, . [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty "The Pork Barrel Politics of the Towns Fund", The Political Quarterly, 92, 7--13. [DOI]
  • Rosie Campbell, Oliver Heath "Fueling the populist divide: nativist and cosmopolitan preferences for representation at the elite and mass level", POLITICAL BEHAVIOR, . [DOI]
  • Jonathan Mellon, Jack Bailey, Christopher Prosser "How do coronavirus attitudes fit into Britain's ideological landscape?", Parliamentary Affairs, 74, 597--616. [DOI]
  • Piscopo, Jennifer M., Malliga Och "Protecting public health in adverse circumstances: subnational women leaders and feminist policymaking during COVID-19", Gender & Development, 29, 547--568. [DOI]
  • Funk, Kendall D, Magda Hinojosa, Piscopo, Jennifer M "Women to the rescue: The gendered effects of public discontent on legislative nominations in Latin America", Party Politics, 27, 465--477. [DOI]
  • Matt Henn, James Sloam, Ana Nunes "Young Cosmopolitans and Environmental Politics: How Postmaterialist Values Inform and Shape Youth Engagement in Environmental Politics", Journal of Youth Studies, . [DOI]
  • James Sloam, Ben O'Loughlin "From Waves of Crisis to Sustainable Public Policy: The Everyday Politics of Young Londoners", Political Insight, 12, 24--27. [DOI]
  • James Sloam, B.M. Kisby, Matt Henn, Benjamin Oldfield "Voice, equality and education: the role of higher education in defining the political participation of young Europeans", Comparative European Politics, 19, 296–322. [DOI]
  • Kaat Smets "Aging and Politics: Age Differences in Political Behavior in Comparative Perspective", in Handbook of Aging & Social Sciences
  • van Ditmars, Mathilde M., Nicola Maggini, van Spanje, Joost "The 2017 Dutch election: How small parties campaigned more strategically", in Conflict Mobilisation or Problem-Solving?
  • Laura Jacobs, van Spanje, Joost "Not all terror is alike: How right-wing extremist and islamist terror threat affect anti-immigration party support", International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 33, 737--755. [DOI]
  • Linda Bos, Lisanne Wichgers, van Spanje, Joost "Are Populists Politically Intolerant? Citizens' Populist Attitudes and Tolerance of Various Political Antagonists", Political Studies, . [DOI]
  • Laura Jacobs, van Spanje, Joost "A time-series analysis of contextual-level effects on hate crime in the Netherlands", Social Forces, 100, 169--193. [DOI]
  • Lisanne Wichgers, Laura Jacobs, van Spanje, Joost "The Battle of Frame Building: The Reciprocal Relationship between Journalists and Frame Sponsors", International Journal of Press/Politics, 26, 674--698. [DOI]
  • Nicholas Allen, Judith Bara "Clear Blue Water? The 2019 Party Manifestos", The Political Quarterly, 92, 531--540. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto "Book Review: The European Union Budget in Times of Crisis, by Kaiser, R. and Prange-Gstöhl, H.", Journal of Common Market Studies, 59, 741--742. [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty "The Pork Barrel Politics of the Towns Fund", The Political Quarterly, 92, 7--13. [DOI]
  • Linda Bos, Lisanne Wichgers, van Spanje, Joost "Are Populists Politically Intolerant? Citizens' Populist Attitudes and Tolerance of Various Political Antagonists", Political Studies, . [DOI]
2020
  • Nicholas Allen, Gabriele Magni, Donald Searing, Philip Warncke "What is a career politician? Theories, concepts and measures", European Political Science Review, 12, 199--217. [DOI]
  • Nicholas Allen, Nora Siklodi "Objectivity and falsehood: Assessing measures of positional influence with members of David Cameron's cabinets", British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22, 220–237. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto "A Package Deal to Exit From Net Balances in the EU Budget", in EU Financing for the Next Decade
  • Giacomo Benedetto "Book Review: International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament, by McDonnell, D. and Werner, A.", Journal of Common Market Studies, 58, 1077--1078. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto "Ensuring the accountability of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI)", in Financial Accountability in the European Union
  • Giacomo Benedetto "The European Parliament as a budgetary extractor since the Lisbon Treaty", in The European Parliament in the Contested Union
  • Giacomo Benedetto, Simon Hix, Nicola Mastrorocco "The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918-2017", American Political Science Review, 114, 928--939. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto, Friedrich Heinemann, Fabian Zuleeg Strategies to overcome the \juste retour' perspective on the EU budget. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto A new package for finance and expenditure in the EU budget. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto "Five Years with Juncker", in Progressive Year Book 2020
  • Ursula Hackett America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State. [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty A court of specialists: judicial behavior on the UK Supreme Court. [DOI]
  • Skiple, Jon K\aare, Littler\'e Bentsen, Henrik, Chris Hanretty "The Government Deference Dimension of Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from the Supreme Court of Norway", Scandinavian Political Studies, 1--22. [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behaviour on the UK Supreme Court. [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty, Ben Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan "A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate", American Journal of Political Science, 64, 519--535. [DOI]
  • Matthew Goodwin, Oliver Heath Low-income voters, the 2019 General Election and the future of British politics. [DOI]
  • Oliver Heath "Communal realignment and support for the BJP, 2009–2019", Contemporary South Asia, 1--14. [DOI]
  • David Cutts, Matthew Goodwin, Oliver Heath, Paula Surridge "Brexit, the 2019 General Election and the Realignment of British Politics", The Political Quarterly, 1--17. [DOI]
  • Matthew Polacko, Oliver Heath, Michael Lewis-Beck, Ruth Dassonneville "Policy Polarization, Income Inequality and Turnout", Political Studies, 1--23. [DOI]
  • Cristian Vaccari, Kaat Smets, Oliver Heath "The United Kingdom 2017 election: polarisation in a split issue space", West European Politics, 43, 587--609. [DOI]
  • Christopher Prosser, Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Jonathan Mellon, Geoffrey Evans "Tremors but no Youthquake: Measuring changes in the age and turnout gradients at the 2015 and 2017 British general elections", Electoral Studies, 64, . [DOI]
  • Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser "Correlation with Time Explains the Relationship between Survey Nonresponse and Mass Polarization", The Journal of Politics, . [DOI]
  • Christopher Prosser "The end of the EU affair: the UK general election of 2019", West European Politics, 1--12. [DOI]
  • Piscopo, Jennifer M., Meryl Kenny "Rethinking the ambition gap: gender and candidate emergence in comparative perspective", european journal of politics and gender, 3, 3--10. [DOI]
  • Piscopo, Jennifer M. "Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation", Politics & Gender, 16, 951--959. [DOI]
  • Gabrielle Bardall, Elin Bjarneg\aard, Jennifer Piscopo "How is Political Violence Gendered? Disentangling Motives, Forms, and Impacts", Political Studies, 68, 916--935. [DOI]
  • James Sloam "Young Londoners, sustainability and everyday politics: the framing of environmental issues in a global city", Sustainable Earth, 3, 1--7. [DOI]
  • Davide Angelucci, Pierangelo Isernia, Kaat Smets "Representation at Work: Miller and Stokes go to Brussels", in The EU Through Multiple Crises
  • De Leeuw, S E, Rekker, R S B, Rachid Azrout, van Spanje, Joost "Are would-be authoritarians right?: Democratic support and citizens' left-right self-placement in former left- and right- authoritarian countries", Democratization, 28, 414--433. [DOI]
  • Lisanne Wichgers, Jacobs, L C N, van Spanje, Joost "Trial and error: Hate speech prosecution and its (unintended) effects on democratic support", Acta Politica, 57, . [DOI]
  • De Leeuw, S E, Rachid Azrout, Rekker, R S B, van Spanje, Joost "After All This Time? The Impact of Media and Authoritarian History on Political News Coverage in Twelve Western Democracies", Journal of Communication, 70, 744–767. [DOI]
  • Laura Jacobs, van Spanje, Joost "Prosecuted, yet popular?: Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support", Comparative European Politics, 18, 899--924. [DOI]
  • van Spanje, J. H.P., R. Azrout "Bringing background back in: A Dutch new party and the revival of socio-economic background voting", Comparative European Politics, 18, 363--383. [DOI]
  • van Ditmars, Mathilde M., Nicola Maggini, van Spanje, Joost "Small winners and big losers: strategic party behaviour in the 2017 Dutch general election", West European Politics, 43, 543--564. [DOI]
  • Nicholas Allen, Nora Siklodi "Objectivity and falsehood: Assessing measures of positional influence with members of David Cameron's cabinets", British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22, 220–237. [DOI]
  • Giacomo Benedetto "Book Review: International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament, by McDonnell, D. and Werner, A.", Journal of Common Market Studies, 58, 1077--1078. [DOI]
  • Christopher Hanretty, Ben Lauderdale, Nick Vivyan "A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate", American Journal of Political Science, 64, 519--535. [DOI]
  • David Cutts, Matthew Goodwin, Oliver Heath, Paula Surridge "Brexit, the 2019 General Election and the Realignment of British Politics", The Political Quarterly, 1--17. [DOI]
  • Matthew Polacko, Oliver Heath, Michael Lewis-Beck, Ruth Dassonneville "Policy Polarization, Income Inequality and Turnout", Political Studies, 1--23. [DOI]
  • Christopher Prosser, Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Jonathan Mellon, Geoffrey Evans "Tremors but no Youthquake: Measuring changes in the age and turnout gradients at the 2015 and 2017 British general elections", Electoral Studies, 64, . [DOI]
  • Gabrielle Bardall, Elin Bjarneg\aard, Jennifer Piscopo "How is Political Violence Gendered? Disentangling Motives, Forms, and Impacts", Political Studies, 68, 916--935. [DOI]