Why do politicians with strong local roots receive more electoral support? The mechanisms
underlying this well-documented “friends and neighbors” effect remain largely untested …

We study the effects of municipal mergers using novel geocoded data on local public sector
jobs and local politicians' place of residence. We find that the mergers had no effects on …

Candidate selection is one of the most relevant tasks of parties and has important
consequences for various aspects of political representation. While previous research has …

Throughout the mid-twentieth century, scholars identified considerable contextual variation
in American electoral politics. Party platforms varied significantly across the country, split …

With growing public distrust toward European institutions, Eurosceptic populist radical-right
parties make up almost a third of MEPs in the current European Parliament. As part of the …

This article responds to earlier research on the role of Islam as a barrier to women's political
nominations by assessing and comparing parties' efforts to meet institutionally required …

The literature on candidate selection has found that voters favour local candidates, as they
are thought to be more apt to represent their constituents. An important caveat is that it …

This article studies the political economy of local politicians' residential neighborhoods. We
use Swedish data on the location of all politicians' and citizens' homes and their …

Previous studies on intra-party competition have largely neglected the role played by
geographic distance between co-partisan candidates. In this study, we argue that …

Voters' tendency to support local candidates, often referred to as 'friends and neighbors
voting', is a spatial-political phenomenon studied for over 70 years. The last decade has …