We review advances in the study of retrospective voting, or how citizens evaluate and act on
their perceptions of government performance. As a whole, the recent literature provides a …

Democratic elections have been assumed to play a crucial role in curbing corruption among
public officials. Voters, due to their general distaste for corruption, are expected to sanction …

A well-functioning democracy requires a degree of mutual respect and a willingness to talk
across political divides. Yet numerous studies have shown that many electorates are …

The eurozone crisis has altered the party political landscape across Europe. The most
visible effect is the rise of challenger parties. The crisis not only caused economic hardship …

Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on voter behavior in Brazil;
what matters most is pork-barreling, incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This …

This book offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the importance of
increasing electoral volatility in British elections, and the role of electoral shocks in the …

Partisans often perceive real world conditions in a manner that credits their own party. Yet
recent findings suggest that partisans are capable of setting their loyalties aside when …

Lagged dependent variables (LDVs) have been used in regression analysis to provide
robust estimates of the effects of independent variables, but some research argues that …

Using decades of public opinion data from the US, UK, Australia, Germany and Canada, and
distinguishing between three concepts-issue ownership, performance and generalised …

Recent literature has shown that the long established link between economic performance
and electoral outcomes is conditioned by a country's institutions and government, what is …