This page lists peer-reviewed publications written by members of the Democracy and Elections Centre over the last five years.
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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]
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",
Politics,
.
[DOI]
Oliver Heath, Jyoti Mishra, Louise Tillin, Sandhya Venkateswaran
Democracy and Health in India: Is Health an Electoral Priority?.
[DOI]
2022
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,
.
[DOI]
Giacomo Benedetto
"Euroscepticism in the EU", in
The State of the European Union
Giacomo Benedetto, Iain Begg, Daina Belicka, Francesco Corti, Nuñez 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]
Christopher Hanretty
"Party system polarization and the effective number of parties",
Electoral Studies,
.
[DOI]
Oliver Heath, Adam Ziegfeld
"Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?",
American Political Science Review,
1--7.
[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]
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-Gstöohl, 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,
.
[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, Christopher Prosser, Jordan Urban, Adam Feldman
"Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation",
Political Studies,
.
[DOI]
Jonathan Mellon, Jack Bailey, Christopher Prosser
"How do coronavirus attitudes fit into Britain's ideological landscape?",
Parliamentary Affairs,
74,
597--616.
[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]
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 Kaare, Littleré 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]
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]
2019
Nicholas Allen
"Worth the paper they're written on: party manifestos", in
Sex, Lies and Politics: The Secret Influences That Drive Our Political Choices
Nicholas Allen
"Ideas, Institutions and the Politicians of Our Governments: Anthony King as a Student of Liberal Democracy", in
Authoritarian Populism and Liberal Democracy
Nicholas Allen, Judith Bara
"Marching to the Left? Programmatic Competition and the 2017 Party Manifestos",
The Political Quarterly,
90,
124--133.
[DOI]
Giacomo Benedetto
The History of the EU Budget.
[DOI]
Giacomo Benedetto
"The European Parliament as a Budgetary Extractor since the Lisbon Treaty",
Journal of European Integration,
41,
329--345.
[DOI]
Ursula Hackett
"Attenuated Governance: How Policymakers Insulate Private School Choice From Legal Challenge",
Policy Studies Journal,
47,
237--273.
[DOI]
Ursula Hackett, Desmond King
"The Reinvention of Vouchers for a Color-Blind Era: A Racial Orders Account",
Studies in American Political Development,
33,
234--257.
[DOI]
Christopher Hanretty
"An Introduction to Multilevel Regression and Post-Stratification for Estimating Constituency Opinion",
Political Studies Review,
1--16.
[DOI]
David Overend, Oliver Heath
"The majority has spoken': performing referenda at the National Theatre",
Studies in Theatre and Performance,
1--23.
[DOI]
David Cutts, Matthew Goodwin, Oliver Heath, Caitlin Milazzo
"Resurgent Remain and a Rebooted Revolt on the Right: Exploring the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom",
The Political Quarterly,
1--19.
[DOI]
Matthew Goodwin, Oliver Heath
Low-income voters in UK general elections, 1987-2017.
[DOI]
Christopher Prosser
"Turnout for what? The (mis)measurement of electoral participation", in
Sex, Lies and Politics
Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Hermann Schmitt, van der Eijk, Cees
Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World.
[DOI]
Kaat Smets
"The United Kingdom: European Elections in the run-up to Brexit", in
The European Parliament Elections of 2019
Laura Jacobs, van Spanje, Joost
"Martyrs for Free Speech? Disentangling the Effects of Legal Prosecution of Anti-immigration Politicians on their Electoral Support",
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR,
43,
973--996.
[DOI]
van Spanje, Joost, Rachid Azrout
"Portrait of a Crisis: The Crucial Role of News Media Coverage and Perceived Effectiveness of a New Party",
International Journal of Communication,
13,
5906--5926.
[DOI]
van Spanje, Joost, Till Weber
"Does ostracism affect party support? Comparative lessons and experimental evidence",
Party Politics,
25,
745--758.
[DOI]
Van Spanje, Joost, Rachid Azrout
"Tainted Love: How Stigmatization of a Political Party in News Media Reduces Its Electoral Support",
International Journal of Public Opinion Research,
31,
283--308.
[DOI]