This bold venture into political theory and comparative politics combines traditional concerns
about democracy with modern analytical methods. It asks how contemporary democracies …

The Nordic Voter is the first book-length comparative analysis of voting behaviour in the five
Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. Leading scholars from …

The Volatility Curse examines the conditions under which economic voting can (and cannot)
function as a mechanism of democratic accountability, challenging existing theories that are …

The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the
effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the …

Governments often fulfill election pledges to remain in power; yet, it is unclear how pledge
fulfillment and breakage actually affect public support for government. This article explores …

Are election campaigns relevant to policymaking, as they should in a democracy? This book
sheds new light on this central democratic concern based on an ambitious study of …

The cost of ruling effect on electoral support is well established. That is, governing parties
tend to lose vote share the longer they are in power. Although we know this to be true, we do …

While there are many studies on the impact of the economy on elections, there is little
evidence on the full mechanism of economic voting implied by performance-based theories …

This paper aims at testing the existence of yardstick competition by estimating a fully
specified vote-function on a panel data set of 104 French local governments from 1989 to …

Research suggests that the costs of international conflict (eg casualties) alter public opinion,
executive approval and policy positions of elected officials. However, do casualties affect …