There is perennial debate in comparative politics about electoral institutions, but what characterizes this debate is the lack of consideration for citizens’ pe...

The official journal of the World Association for Public Opinion Research. A comparative, multidisciplinary forum serving the international community, the journal publishes papers that provide...

Acta Politica - With the recent rise of populism in the developed world, the division between large cities and rural areas is in the spotlight as never before. This article explores the effect of...

In electoral systems with districts that vary in magnitude, the number of seats to be filled in each district will be even or odd. We argue that such a variation has crucial political consequences,...

Major crises can act as critical junctures or reinforce the political status quo, depending on how citizens view the performance of central institutions. We use an interrupted time series to study...

Primaries Through the Looking Glass: The Electoral Effects of Opening the Selection of Top Candidates - Volume 51 Issue 4

Abstract. How does rural decline affect electoral politics? A well-known argument is that the growing geographical polarisation of populations between pros

Santiago Lago, catedrático del Departamento de Economía Aplicada de la Universidade de Vigo y director del Foro Económico de Galicia, ingresará como A...

This article examines whether household size affects economic voting. We argue when individuals are asked about national economic conditions and their personal ...

Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States - Volume 12 Issue 2

This article revisits the foundations of previous research on the selection of party leaders. The authors argue that leader selection in party congresses entails two dimensions: fragmentation, or t...

This article examines whether rally effects when an unexpected calamity occurs are affected by the degree of (de)centralisation of power. We argue that when the national government is exclusively i...

This paper explores an alternative mechanism for understanding the drivers of the nomination of women for elective office in single-member electoral systems. Pr...

El éxito de la selección española precisamente en el Mundial de 2023 y no en ediciones anteriores tiene mucho que ver con la extraordinaria transformación del fútbol femenino en nuestro país en los...

The conditions under which women's national football teams do better or worse in international tournaments remains an open question. Using data from 116 countri...

Abstract. This article examines the political consequences of pre–Election Day poll restrictions. Our argument is that laws forbidding the publication of p

While electoral reforms clearly affect how seats are (re)distributed among parties immediately after their adoption, they do not significantly change the (re)di...

Introducir primarias con el único objetivo de recuperar votantes es ineficaz. Incluso si el principal rival no las utiliza, no se obtendrá premio electoral alguno

Objective Although there is a huge literature examining how diversity affects group performance, an important limitation is the lack of evidence at the employee level. This article tries to fill...

La irrupción de la ultraderechista Chega con 50 diputados en el Parlamento demuestra que ha logrado canalizar la radicalidad de los desencantados, a pesar de no tener respuestas realistas a los...

Abstract. While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the impact of soccer wins on attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, there is relativel

Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States - Volume 12 Issue 2

Objectives This article relies on data from 20,730 matches in 30 national soccer leagues in Europe to explore the determinants of penalties taken in elite soccer. Methods We run OLS cross-sectiona...

Al inicio de la pandemia, la dislocación del calendario electoral fue grande y todos los gobiernos se sentían obligados a posponerlas. La tendencia ha cambiado, y la

Abstract. There is evidence that people vote for corrupt candidates even when they have information that their representatives have been engaged in corrupt

Liderada per l’investigador de la UPF Jorge Rodríguez Menés, i finançada en el marc del programa RecerCaixa, la recerca en curs ha trobat que un estatus de la dona més elevat que el de l’home...

This paper examines the effect of party primaries on women’s chances of winning a leadership contest in eight Western parliamentary countries since 1985. By doi...