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This paper examines whether and how electoral rules moderate the effect of voter bias on candidate choice. Voter bias against female candidates follows a pattern known as... -
Raining on the parties’ parade: how media storms disrupt the electoral commun...
Literature on agenda-building dynamics has neglected to assess the impact of contextual factors on the interplays between the issue attention of political actors and of the... -
Trends in Inequality of Opportunity for Developing Countries: Does the Econom...
Abstract The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the behaviour of Inequality of Opportunity (IOp henceforth) in developing countries. The analysis is carried out using... -
Sample size recommendations for continuous-time models: Compensating shorter ...
Autoregressive modeling has traditionally been concerned with time-series data from one unit (N = 1). For short time series (T T, another source of information is often... -
The two faces of conflict: how internal and external conflict affect interest...
Conflict is one of the most fundamental concepts in the interest group literature. The more conflict there is, the less likely it is that interest groups can impact... -
Measuring electoral integrity: using practitioner knowledge to assess elections
The integrity of the electoral process is vitally important for the delivery of democracy. However, there is an ongoing debate about how the integrity of elections can be... -
Cross-tier personal gains in mixed electoral systems
We extend the research on contamination effects in mixed-member electoral systems by considering the impact of “dual candidacies” in systems that combine SMD and open-list PR... -
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While the sizeable literature on anti-immigrant parties commonly invokes the term “breakthrough” in discussing their electoral fortunes, no existing study has subjected this... -
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Are lesbian, gay and bisexual voters in Western Europe europhile globalists or eurosceptic nativists? The recently established ‘sexuality gap’ between lavender voters and... -
Evaluation of Model Fit in Structural Equation Models with Ordinal Missing Da...
In many applied situations, the questionnaire items in measurement instruments do not approximate continuous, normally distributed variables but instead are ordinal. Properties... -
Finding clusters of measurement invariant items for continuous covariates
Measurement invariance (MI) cannot always be achieved for the full length of a test or questionnaire, leading researchers to seek for measurement invariant item subsets.... -
Policy area satisfaction, perceptions of responsibility, and political trust:...
Existing research demonstrates that evaluations of policies affect political trust. However, two limitations to the extant literature require us to reassess the micro-level... -
Does it pay to lobby? Examining the link between firm lobbying and firm profi...
Does firm lobbying in the EU increase firm profitability? While there is a well-established literature on this issue in the US context, existing EU studies have overlooked this... -
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We show how a factor analysis model can be fitted to nominal data using the computer program Mplus. The model is akin to multinomial logistic regression with unobserved... -
Sex and ideology: liberal and conservative responses to scandal
Research finds citizens are less likely to penalize politicians implicated in sex scandals compared to corruption. Still, observational data reveals that some politicians have... -
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Considerable evidence suggests that social diversity increases the number of political parties. While a vast literature examines this relationship by measuring social diversity... -
Procedural vs substantive accountability in EMU governance: between payoffs a...
This article introduces a new normative framework for analysing accountability in the European Union’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The framework is anchored in four... -
Environmental protection preferences under strain: an analysis of the impact ...
This paper uses panel survey data from 2002 to 2008 – covering a period of economic prosperity and intense economic difficulties – to analyse the impact of changing levels of... -
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During the recent European refugee crisis, more than two million people applied for asylum in Germany. Female applicants stand a higher chance to gain protection than male... -
European Cultural Diplomacy: Diaspora Relations with Kazakhstan
Cultural diplomacy using diasporic communities as facilitators of interaction between states has long been important. This article suggests a typology of networks of...
